OREANDA-NEWS. June 10, 2009. The delegation comprised Alexander Lokshin, Deputy Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, Oleg Sarayev, Deputy Director General of Energoatom Concern, Boris Silin, Head of Nuclear Power Complex Department of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, Pyotr Lavrenyuk, Vice President of TVEL OJSC, and Andrey Glazov, Executive Officer of the Directorate for Fabrication of Fuel for BN-800 Reactor (TVEL OJSC).

The delegates visited the MIR reactor, the radioactive waste treatment complex, the reactor materials science department, the iodine-131 isotope production workshop and observed the process of automatic production of fuel assembly mock-ups for BN-600 (fast-breeder reactor).

During a subsequent meeting the guests and the hosts discussed the use of the research and development capacities of NIIAR in the framework of Russia’s nuclear energy development programs as well as NIIAR’s project to create fuel for BN-800 reactor.