BN-800 reactor

The BN-800 reactor (Russian: реактор БН–800) is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The reactor is designed to generate 880 MW of electrical power. The plant was considered part of the weapons-grade Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement signed between the United States and Russia. The reactor is part of the final step for a plutonium-burner core (a core designed to burn and, in the process, destroy, and recover energy from, plutonium) The plant reached its full power production in August 2016. According to Russian business journal Kommersant, the BN-800 project cost 140.6 billion rubles (roughly 2.17 billion dollars).

BN-800
GenerationGeneration III+
Reactor conceptFast breeder reactor
StatusOperational
LocationZarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
Main parameters of the reactor core
Fuel (fissile material)U+Pu nitride, MOX, or metal
Fuel stateSolid
Neutron energy spectrumFast
Primary coolantLiquid sodium
Reactor usage
Power (thermal)2100 MWth
Power (electric)789 MWe net
885 MWe gross
External image
BN-800 reactor. Photo from Rosatom
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