TOMSK, Feb 16 – RIA Tomsk. Rosatom will allocate 9 billion rubles in 2017 for the "Proryv" project which is implemented at the Siberian Chemical Plant (SCP, is included into fuel company of Rosatom TVEL), the press service of the regional administration reported on Thursday.
Rosatom since 2011 realizes at the Siberian Chemical Plant the project "Proryv" on creation of the latest fuel at which the nuclear power will work after 2020. In Seversk (the closed satellite town of Tomsk) as a part of PDPC there will be a reactor BREST-OD-300 installation with a station nuclear fuel cycle, and also production of uranium - plutonium (nitride) fuel for reactors on fast neutrons.
It is specified that the governor of the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin discussed the current questions of activity of SCP in 2017 and the course of implementation of the "Proryv" project with the head of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev, and also with the head of TVEL fuel company Yury Olenin."Alexey Evgenyevich (Likhachev) confirmed that in 2017 9 billion rubles will be allocated for the "Proryv" project, 7 billion will be allocated by Rosatom. Besides, we agreed with Rosatom about synchronization of a conclusion from operation of the outdated equipment on productions of SCP with the schedule of implementation of the "Proryv" project, – is quoted Zhvachkin in the message, following the results of a meeting.
According to the governor, Likhachev will check pace of construction personally during the visit to the Tomsk region in the second half of the 2017 year. "I can declare that the state corporation fulfills all obligations to the Tomsk region and residents of Seversk. Rosatom modernizes atomic production, and it, without exaggeration, is the new word in world nuclear power", – Zhvachkin noted.