Nuclear News Ticker - November 06, 2020

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AtomInfo.Ru, PUBLISHED 06.11.2020

Bulgaria remains one of the most loyal EU countries to the atom. According to another opinion poll, 58% of Bulgarians support the development of nuclear energy and only 10% do not support it.

The forecast balance of electricity in Ukraine for 2021 does not include imports and exports from Belarus.

The notes coming from Lithuania about the Belarusian NPP were called in Minsk an "epistolary series".

Topics: Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Nuclear News Tickers

Other news:

Unit No. 1 at the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant has been brought to minimum control power

Minimum control power level is reached when neutron flux is recorded in a reactor working at a level sufficient to sustain a fission chain reaction.

WANO appoints Robert Gambrill as Director of WANO Atlanta Centre

He has formally replaced Russ Brian.

We plan for the BN-800 reactor to switch from a hybrid core to an active core fully loaded with tablet MOX fuel assemblies

The complete MOX-core is planned in 2022.

Hero of the day

Leningrad NPP Unit 6 Connected to Grid, Delivers First Electricity to Russian Power System

The Leningrad NPP Unit 6 equipped with Rosatom's flagship Generation III+ VVER-1200 reactor was connected to the grid and reached the power capacity of 240 MW.

INTERVIEW

Vladimir Kriventsev
The International Atomic Energy Agency brings together the fast reactor and related fuel cycle community and countries and the wider public interested in these technologies by organising the International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Future or FR21.

OPINION

Vyacheslav Kupriyanov,<br>Victor Murogov

Vyacheslav Kupriyanov,
Victor Murogov
To sum up, we can say that from above we see a set of tasks and areas of activity that must be solved and developed to build the nuclear power of the future, and from below we see an understanding of how it can be done.