Production of stainless steel pipes for the active zone of the BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor has begun at the Chepetsky Mechanical Plant (ChMP, part of Rosatom) in the Udmurt Republic. It is being built in the closed city of Seversk as part of the strategic Breakthrough project.
Round and hexagonal pipes will be the basis for nuclear reactor components. In addition, hexagonal pipes will be used in protection blocks. The components will first be sent to the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (also part of Rosatom), and from there to Seversk.
About 30 units of unique equipment were purchased for the new production, including Russia's only 40-meter rolling mill for profiling hexagonal pipes.
The new component production area for the reactor is located on previously mothballed areas of the Chepetsky Mechanical Plant. Initially, 15 people will work there, but the staff will then be expanded.
It is a great honor to be involved in a project of global importance. We are mastering new types of products and technologies from scratch that will form the basis for a strategic project of the nuclear industry.
The Chepetsky Mechanical Plant is part of the fuel division of the Rosatom State Corporation – these are enterprises engaged in the fabrication of nuclear fuel, conversion, uranium enrichment, and the production of gas centrifuges. The fuel division is the only supplier of nuclear fuel for Russian nuclear power plants.
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