Russia began construction of a power unit with a reactor installation on fast neutron BREST-300, TASS reports.
Relevant works are conducted by Rosatom in Seversk (Tomsk Region) within the framework of the Strategic Sectoral Project “Breakthrough”.
“Here we create the basis of not only the net and safe energy of tomorrow, we create a basis for the development and strengthening of Russia’s leadership in a new technological structure. In fact, we form the agenda of the country until the end of the current century,” the general director of the state corporation Alexey Likhachev said.
It is expected that the use of BREST-300 type settings will avoid Chernobyl and Fukushima crash. The corresponding power unit must earn in the second half of the 2020s.