RIVER: nuclear technologies for better life

Rosatom’s Research Innovative VErsatile Reactor (RIVER) product line offers a flexible approach for countries willing to leverage their scientific and socio-economic growth by applying nuclear technologies

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Advanced Center for nuclear science and technology

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Professional Center for nuclear science and technology

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Nuclear medicine
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Multifunctional Irradiation facility

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Modernization & Upgrade Services

ROSATOM experience in non-energy projects

  • Rosatom references in research reactors
  • Landmark Project in Bolivia
  • Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center in Russia

  • >75

    years of technological experience

  • >20

    Research reactors abroad

  • >50

    RESEARCH FACILITIES

  • >120

    Nuclear research facilities

Latvia
  • Latvia

    IRT-M, 5MW

Germany
  • Germany

    RFR, 10MW

Czech Republic
  • Czech Republic

    LVR-15, 10MW

Poland
  • Poland

    EWA, 10MW

    MARIA, 30MW

Hungary
  • Hungary

    BRR, 10MW

Serbia
  • Serbia

    RA, 6.5MW

Bulgaria
  • Bulgaria

    IRT-2000, 2MW/0.2MW

Romania
  • Romania

    VVR-S, 2MW

Belarus
  • Belarus

    IRT-M, 4MW

Ukraine
  • Ukraine

    VVR-M, 10MW

Georgia
  • Georgia

    IRT-M, 8MW

Iraq
  • Iraq

    RT-5000, 5MW

Libya
  • Libya

    IRT-1, 10MW

Egypt
  • Egypt

    ETRR-1, 2MW

Uzbekistan
  • Uzbekistan

    VVR-SM, 10MW

Kazakhstan
  • Kazakhstan

    RA, 0,5 MW

    IVG-1V, 72MW

    IGR

    VVR-K, 6MW

China
  • China

    HWRR-10, 10MW

Vietnam
  • Vietnam

    DRR, 0,5MW

ROSATOM RR global references

So far ROSATOM has built

  • 122 research reactors:
  • 100
    russia
  • 22
    abroad

Global fleet

  • Out of
    226 RRs in operation
  • >50 RRs are located in Russia
  • 20%
    russia

  • Center for Nuclear Technology Research and Development (CNTRD)

    The center construction project is unparalleled in the global nuclear industry. The site chosen by the Bolivian side for the center is higher than any other site where nuclear facilities have ever been built.

  • Location: El Alto, Bolivia:

    • 3927 metres above the sea level
    • The highest Altitude Nuclear Facility in the World
    • Planned to be fully commissioned by the end of 2024

  • Configuration:

    • Research Reactor (First in Bolivia)
    • Multipurpose Irradiation Centre
      Output: More than 70 tons of products per day
    • Cyclotron-Radiopharmacological-Preclinic Complex
      Provides radiopharmaceuticals for more than 5,000 patients per year
    • Radiobiology and Radioecology Laboratory
    • Administration

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Center for Nuclear Technology Research and Development in El Alto, Bolivia (CNTRD)

  • Expansion of Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center in Russia

    The facility has been designed to conduct scientific and clinical research in nuclear medicine including in visualization and radionuclide therapy, and to satisfy other clinical needs

  • Location: Moscow, Russia:

    • The largest center of its kind in Europe
    • Ranked the best project in the field of healthcare
    • Provides scientific and clinical research in nuclear medicine
    • Admits up to 2,000 initial inpatients every year
    • Specializes in treating children with severe medical conditions
Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center
  • Rosatom has the in-house material and technological resources necessary to develop research and study labs and supply them with scientific specimens
  • The Rosatom enterprises and R&D institutions have 20,000 employees to provide the State Corporation with a powerful research base and to support its cooperation with partner countries
  • At the disposal of Rosatom are extensive possibilities to organize shadow training at research reactors and centres of nuclear research and technology

RIVER PRO configuration

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Library

A CNST based library is an entity dedicated to collecting, organizing and storing the documents and publications reflecting creation and development of the nuclear industry, as well as to providing information on nuclear science and technology to the centre employees and visitors.

Museum

A CNST museum is a multipurpose information system containing materials on the history of nuclear industry, on nuclear science and technology research, on nuclear industry achievements. A variety of objects can be provided for the exhibition space in order to fulfil informative and educational purposes.

Lecture Halls

The Centre service personnel should have the facility for education, training, and to pass the mandatory certification of their skills. Lecture halls in the centre provide for educational programmes, including workshops, lectures, theoretical and practical training, as well as conventions and meetings at different levels. The halls can be equipped with a variety of educational and digital equipment, display stands, plant models, as well as multimedia equipment (audio and video), as per the educational goals set.

Nuclear Medicine Centre

This is intended to diagnose cardiac, oncological and neurological diseases using a variety of equipment included in the centre, as well as to perform disease therapy and treatment.

Cyclotron Diagnostic facilities Medical plants
Ultra-short-lived and short-lived radionuclides production and distribution for nuclear medicine (SPECT & PET diagnostics)

Cyclotron СС- 18/9М

Suitable for regional medical PET-Centres; designed to effectively produce both ultra short-lived and short-lived radionuclides.

PET

PET diagnostics department

Interstitial and endocavitary radiation therapy department

Equipped with «Agat–VT» brachytherapy system

Cyclotron СС-12

Suitable to be used in urban and regional medical Centres because of its economic efficiency; designed to produce ultra short-lived radionuclides for PET radiopharmaceuticals.

SPECT

SPECT diagnostics department

Radionuclide therapy department

Use of radiopharmaceuticals: iodine-131, samarium-153 and strontium-89.

Cyclotron СС-30/15

Suitable to be used in major radiological Centres that conduct additional research projects on top of routine radionuclide production. This cyclotron allows carrying out research on new promising radiopharmaceuticals.

CCRD

Complex radionuclide diagnostics solution, including cyclotron and radiochemistry facility, PET/CT, SPECT and SPECT/CT
Electron accelerator
Proton beam therapy devices

Multipurpose Irradiation Centre

Multipurpose Irradiation Centre is a complex of systems and equipment necessary to perform radiation processing of food and materials to enhance their safety and quality. The Centre includes an industrial/commercial plant that utilizes a Co-60-based radiation source or an electron accelerator as the radionuclide ionizing radiation source.

Major areas

  • Sterilization of medical products and medical devices
  • Sanitary food processing (decontamination of food; disinsection of cereals)
  • Modification of materials

Radiation Treatment:

  • Used in more than 50 countries
  • Environmentally safe
  • Highly productive and efficient
  • Significantly prolongs the date of expiry
  • Improves international trade, as it ensures compliance with the strict quality requirements of importing countries

1 – cargo management area

  • Automated subject loading to the conveyor
  • Transporting subjects to the irradiation zone
  • Automated subject unloading

2 – irradiation chamber

  • Irradiating food or materials with the gamma-ray plant or the electron accelerator
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3 – water shaft

  • Radioisotope source storage

4 – ventilation chamber

5 – dispatch and storage area

  • Dispatching products to the warehouse for short or long-term storage, as per the contract
  • Loading products to vehicles directly from the warehouse

Research Reactor

This is intended to perform theoretical and practical research, using neutrons and gamma quants as a research tool or subject. The research reactor is installed in a reactor building that serves as a protective vessel for the research reactor and also as a research facility. In addition to the research reactor, the reactor building houses research and experiment equipment, utility systems, the radiation control system and the reactor control and protection system (option: a control system and a safe operation system).

Technical solution: research reactors capacity range

Key features of research reactors up to 1 MW
TRAINING RESEARCH REACTOR		 10 МW
BASIC MULTIPURPOSE RESEARCH REACTOR		 20 MW
ADVANCED MULTIPURPOSE RESEARCH REACTOR
Fuel assembly type VVR-M2 IRT-4M VVR-KN IRT-4M VVR-KN
Fuel enrichment, U235, % 19,7
Maximum thermal neutron flux, х1014 1/cm2s:
in the core* 0,45 3,2 3,3 > 4,1 > 4,6
in Be reflector* 0,22 2 2 > 1,4 > 1,2
Reactor service life, years 50
Coolant Demineralized water
Reflector Beryllium

*common values

Laboratories

Nuclear Research Laboratories are designed for all types of research carried out by the Nuclear Science and Technology Center and serve as a training base for students and specialists engaged in the field.

The Centre for Nuclear Research and Technology Essential Lab List

Laboratories Activities/Research to be performed 1 MW 10 MW 20 MW
Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) Lab Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) + + +
Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA) + + +
Geochronology + + +
Radioisotope Lab Isotope Production + (low special activity) + +
Radiopharmaceutical production + + +
Radiobiology Lab Radiobiology experiments + + +
Irradiation Labs Silicon Doping - + +
Gamma Irradiation + + +
Gemstone Colouring + + +
Neutron beam Labs Neutron Diffraction Analyses - + +
Radiography / Neutron Tomography - + +
Material testing Structural materials - + +
Absorbing materials - - +
Fuel - - +
Education / training Education / training + + +

Civil Infrastructure

The primary purpose of the civil infrastructure is to fit business, administrative and commercial offices, shopping outlets, food joints and consumer service facilities in order to establish a comfortable work environment in the centre.

Sports Facilities

The CNRT Sports facilities usually include a football (soccer) field, tennis courts, running tracks, spectator terraces, and auxiliary pads and structures. Once the Сentre is put into operation, the sports facilities can be used both to do sports and to host events aimed at increasing the CNRT employees’ satisfaction.

Residential Buildings

These are buildings designed and constructed to provide temporary accommodation to researchers, employees and specialists in the close vicinity of the Centre.

Integrated Offer for RIVER product line

Rosatom State Corporation Integrated Offer for RIVER product line is a set of product solutions and services provided by the Russian nuclear industry entities, that ensures comprehensive support for the customer country’s national nuclear program at every stage and provides the customer with the whole range of products and services from a single supplier throughout the RIVER project lifecycle.

Public acceptance

Raising public awareness of the benefits that nuclear technology application provides as well as disseminating positive information about its effects among the population

Human resources development

Training the professionals qualified to manage a national nuclear program and to operate nuclear facilities safely and efficient

Industrial solution

Enabling local suppliers to contribute to the national nuclear program and giving a boost to the local economy

Scientific and research programs

Design, construction and commissioning of Centers for Nuclear Science and Technology globally and assistance in participation of partner countries in International Research Center

Fuel supply

Lifetime fuel supply as well as radiation sources and isotope targets throughout the CNST operation cycle

Operation & maintenance

Managing safe and efficient Nuclear facility operation throughout its entire lifecycle

Back end

Providing eco-friendly solutions for spent nuclear fuel and radwaste treatment and decommissioning nuclear facilities

Nuclear infrastructure development

Preparing the customer country to host a nuclear facility in accordance with Russia’s and the world’s best practices and with the IAEA requirements

Raising public awareness of the benefits that nuclear technology application provides as well as disseminating positive information about its effects among the population

Training the professionals qualified to manage a national nuclear program and to operate nuclear facilities safely and efficient

Enabling local suppliers to contribute to the national nuclear program and giving a boost to the local economy

Design, construction and commissioning of Centers for Nuclear Science and Technology globally and assistance in participation of partner countries in International Research Center

Lifetime fuel supply as well as radiation sources and isotope targets throughout the CNST operation cycle

Managing safe and efficient Nuclear facility operation throughout its entire lifecycle

Providing eco-friendly solutions for spent nuclear fuel and radwaste treatment and decommissioning nuclear facilities

Preparing the customer country to host a nuclear facility in accordance with Russia’s and the world’s best practices and with the IAEA requirements

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