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Yakutia SMR plan progresses
Meeting the energy needs of remote mining communities is a key driver behind the development of small modular reactors (SMRs). One project that seems to be gathering pace is a plan to construct a first-of-a-kind small land based PWR in the Russian far east, based on marine reactor technology
Visualisation of RITM-based small reactor installation in the Russian Arctic (Rosatom)
The plan to construct a first-of-a-kind 55 MWe/190 MWt land based SMR (small modular reactor) in Yakutia (Ust-Yansky region), building on Russia’s nuclear ice-breaker and floating nuclear power plant experience, took another step forward in early September with the signing of an agreement between the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Rosatom (Russian state nuclear corporation). The agreement envisages that the new “Far Eastern Concession Mechanism” (supported by JSC VEB Infrastructure, a subsidiary of VEB.RF, a major Russian state investment corporation) could be employed to fund the project. This empowers the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East to conclude concession agreements with businesses for provision of key infrastructure projects.
It is considered that construction of the SMR would help to overcome one of the main infrastructural constraints holding back “promising commercial projects in the North- Yakutian Arctic area” by ensuring uninterrupted power supply and fixed prices for electricity. Under the new agreement, the parties also
Ust-Yansky Chukotka Kamchatka
Magadan
The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Krasnoyarsk
Sakhalin Irkutsk Amur Khabarovsk
Sources for this article included a presentation by Elena Pashina of Rusatom Overseas at Nuclear Engineering International’s Small and Advanced Reactor virtual conference, 18 February 2021
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Bashkortostan Zabaykalsky
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