The automated facility has already made mockup nuclear fuel bundles for the BREST-OD-300 core design, as per Rosatom.
Russia has launched its third cycle of testing innovative uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel at the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant in Saratov Oblast, a key step that advances the closed nuclear fuel cycle ...
Now that the nuclear fuel cycle project has fallen apart, there are fears spent fuel could end up being stored indefinitely in a facility only ever intended as an interim storage site.