A homeland nuclear station equipped with an upgraded high-power computerized WER-TOI unit of a new generation (developed on the basis of a water-moderated reactor) is up for licensing in December 2012. This will make it possible to bring the new generator to the world market as early as 2013, according to Alexander Polushkin, Deputy Director A nuclear station supplied with two blocks and WER-TOI. стр. 79 Localization of fuel core meltdown in the WER-TOIproject. General of Rosenergoatom, who was addressing the Moscow-held ATOM EXPO forum in June of 2012. Details, from the newspaper Strana Rosatom ("Ros-atomland"), the mouthpiece of nuclear power engineers. The project was developed by the Rosatom corporation and its affiliated bodies. It also involves such companies as Rosenergoatom, Atomenergoproject, a major designer of nuclear stations in Russia, Eastern Europe and in former Soviet republics; the All-Russia Research Institute in charge of the operation of nuclear utilities (Moscow); the Gidropress R&D Office (Podolsk, Moscow Region) as well as the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", among other organizations. The acronym TOI stands for three fundamental principles materialized in the new nuclear station: type-design, optimization and information. The nation's first 210 MW water-moderated (water-cooled) reactor was put into service in 1964 at the Novovoronezh atomic station. Then came the WER- 440 and WER-1000 upgraded reactors. Thus one could get down to the job of designing and building a power generator and associated facilities. In 2006 Rosatom developed the AES-2006 nuclear station with an upgraded 1,150-1,200 MW power generator noted for higher safety and operational characteristics. Another three nuclear stations were developed on its basis--at Voronezh, Leningrad and in the Baltic area. Ilya Kopytov, Atomenergoproject Deputy Director General, says WER-TOI was the next ste ... Читать далее