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Nizhniy
Novgorod
Address: 15 Burnakovskiy proyezd, Nizhniy
Novgorod 603603
Telephone: (8312) 41-87-72, 41-89-02,
46-21-32, 46-23-12, 46-25-80, 46-32-86
Fax: (8312) 41-87-72, 42-52-75
http://www.okbm.nnov.ru/
Director and Chief Designer: Aleksandr
Ivanovich Kiryushin[1]
Head of Science: Fyodor Mikhailovich Mitenkov[1]
Head of the International Cooperation Department:
Vladimir Ivanovich Kalentev[1]
Chief Engineer: Yu. Panov[2]
This bureau designs small power reactors, fast breeder reactors, reactors for district heating,
and
reactors for ship propulsion. OKBM reportedly developed the
BN-350 fast breeder
reactor.[1] OKBM built KLT-40 reactors for nuclear ice breakers, and is
involved in projects to use KLT-40 reactors for electricity production on
floating power plants.[2,8] The bureau
also participated in the development of Russia's centrifuge technology.[3] OKBM
develops MOX fuel for VVER-1000 and
BN-600
reactors.[4] The bureau is one of
the major participants in the Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR) project;
it is developing the design for the reactor, which is to be built in cooperation with
US, French, and Japanese firms at the
Siberian Chemical Combine in
Seversk.[5,6] OKBM cooperates with the
China Nuclear Energy Industry
Corporation in designing reactors and providing various pump equipment for
nuclear power plants constructed in China.[7]
Four
659
100Wt
This critical assembly is used as a
VVER reactor prototype.
659-L
This critical assembly has been
shut down.
1120
This critical assembly was shut
down in 1996.
1125
600Wt
This critical assembly is used as a
VVER reactor prototype.
(For more recent developments, see the Research Facilities
Developments and
General Civilian Naval Reactor
Developments files.)
10/19/2002: FLOATING REACTOR DESIGN
APPROVED
On 19 October 2002, Minister
of Atomic Energy Aleksandr
Rumyantsev signed a decision approving the design of a floating power and heat
plant that will use KLT-40S nuclear reactors. The decision had already
been signed by
Rosenergoatom
president Oleg Sarayev
and
Shipbuilding Agency
head Vladimir Pospelov.[1]
In order for construction to begin, an order for construction must be officially
announced; such an order is expected in the next few months, after licensing
measures, now 90% complete, are finalized.[2] The project was developed by the joint stock company Atomenergo,
which was created in 1993 by OKBM,
the Nizhniy Novgorod
Machine Building Plant, the Aysberg (Iceberg) Central Design
Bureau (St. Petersburg), the
Baltic Shipyard
(St. Petersburg), and
Atomflot
(Murmansk).[3] Atomenergo
is serving as the general designer and Aysberg
as the general constructor of the power plant; OKBM,
the Kaluga Turbine Plant,
the
Avrora Scientific Production Association,
and other enterprises are building the reactors, and the
Northern Machine Building Enterprise (Sevmash)
is constructing the vessel on which the reactors will be mounted.[1] For more information on floating nuclear power
plants, see the 10/19/2002,
12/18/2001,
10/12/2001,
10/10/2001, and
3/13/2001 entries in
the General Civilian Naval Reactor
Developments file, and the
Floating
Reactors overview.
7/2001: OKBM PARTICIPATES IN KURSK
RECOVERY PROJECT
According to Rubin
Design Bureau Deputy Director Vladimir Koloskov, Afrikantov Experimental Machine
Building Bureau (OKBM) is helping to develop a plan to recover the Russian submarine
Kursk, which sank in August 2000.[1] OKBM,
which designed nuclear reactors for the latest generation of Russian
submarines, is in charge of overseeing the reactor safety aspect of the Kursk recovery
operation.[2,3]
3/2001: OKBM TO DEVELOP FLOATING REACTOR
According to the press service of the Russian
Ministry of Atomic Energy, in the next five years Russia will build
a 50MW floating nuclear power plant at
the Sevmash
Machine Building Enterprise in Severodvinsk in
Northern Russia. The nuclear power plant will
provide energy to Sevmash and the city of Severodvinsk. The Afrikantov
Experimental Machine Building Design Bureau (OKBM) will develop this project. The
estimated cost of the floating nuclear power plant is $109 million.
1/2001: OKBM TO HEAD MINATOM'S REACTOR UPGRADE PROGRAM
The Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia
(Minatom) chose OKBM to head up a 10-year program to build and upgrade nuclear power plants,
mostly in foreign countries, including
China,
India, and
Iran. OKBM in turn
contracted out the assembly of cooling equipment to Nizhniy Novgorod-based enterprises. The estimated cost of upgrading
non-nuclear equipment for one power reactor is $200 million. According to OKBM
specialists, the 10-year program will create
10,000 new jobs at Nizhniy Novgorod enterprises.[1] OKBM will also design at least 10 new
reactors for the Russian nuclear submarine fleet by 2005.[2]
5/2000: OKBM MAY DESIGN A PROSPECTIVE
GAS-COOLED REACTOR
According to Nucleonics Week, the United States Department of Energy (DOE)
has proposed in its
fiscal year 2001 budget a plan to
provide financial assistance to Russia to design a high-temperature gas reactor
(HTR), which would burn excess plutonium. According to the DOE proposal, $10
million will be spent for the HTR project in 2001 only if international
partners (the United
States, Russia, Japan, and the European Union) agree to each contribute $80 million over
six years to the program. OKBM would receive half of this money for engineering services.
Last updated 8 July 2004
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