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| BN-1200 | |
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| Generation | Generation IV |
| Reactor concept | Fast breeder reactor |
| Status | Planned/Concept |
| Main parameters of the reactor core | |
| Fuel (fissile material) | Unknown |
| Neutron energy spectrum | Fast |
| Primary coolant | Liquid sodium |
| Reactor usage | |
| Power (thermal) | 2900 MWth |
| Power (electric) | 1220 MWe gross |
The BN-1200 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor project, under development by OKBM Afrikantov in Zarechny, Russia. The BN-1200 is based on the earlier BN-600 and especially BN-800, with which it shares a number of features. The reactor's name comes from its electrical output, nominally 1220 MWe.
Originally part of an expansion plan including as many as eight BN-Reactors starting construction in 2012, plans for the BN-1200 were repeatedly scaled back until only two were ordered. The first was to begin construction at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant in 2015, with commissioning in 2017, followed by a second unit. A possible new station known as South Ural would host another two BN-1200s at some future point.
In 2015, after minor delays, problems at the recently completed BN-800 dictated a fuel redesign. BN-1200 construction was put on "indefinite hold",[1] and Rosenergoatom stated that no decision to continue would be made before 2019.[2] In January 2022, Rosatom announced that a pilot BN-1200M would be built by 2035.[3]
- ^ "Russia postpones BN-1200 in order to improve fuel design". World Nuclear News. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Dalton, David, ed. (22 March 2016). "'No Decision' On Beloyarsk BN-1200 Before 2019". NucNet.
- ^ "Russia to build BN1200 by 2035". Nuclear Engineering International. Retrieved 27 July 2022.