Principles of Inherent Self-Protection Realized in the Project of Small Size Modular Reactor SVBR-100

Conclusions: • From the standpoint of population, the opportunity of catastrophic consequences caused by nuclear accident is much more important than very low possibility of its realization. • The level of social acceptability of future large-scale NP must be higher. • Use of the nuclear power technology (NPT) based on RFs, in which the value of stored potential energy of different kinds is minimal, will meet that goal the most efficient. • Those RFs cannot amplify the external impacts, therefore, the scale of damages will be only determined by the external impact energy, the exhaust of radioactivity being localized. • Now there are no developed NPTs with such properties. • The NPT based on modular fast reactors SVBR-100 and verified in conditions of NS operating is to the most extent ready to be demonstrated. • Federal target program "New Generation Nuclear Power Technologies for 2010 – 2015 Years and Future Trends up to 2020" stipulates the construction of experimental-industrial power-unit SVBR-100. • The project is realized within the frameworks of state-private partnership by joint venture JSC "AKME-Engineering" organized on a parity basis by State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom" and Limited Liability Company "Irkutskenergo". • The first of a kind power unit with RF SVBR-100 will be commissioned in 2017 near the SSC NIIAR site in Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk region). • Widespread common use of this NPT, which potentials are very high, is expected to begin in ∼ 2020 – 2025. In case of earlier starting, the economic risk will be high; in case it is launched later, much profit will be lost