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Rosatom to Launch Next-Gen Fast Neutron Reactor by 2030

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia, June 3 (Sputnik) - Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom plans to launch a new generation fast neutron nuclear reactor near the city of Tomsk in 2030, CEO Alexey Likhachev said on Tuesday.
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"A unique project is the construction of a fourth-generation nuclear power plant in Seversk [near Tomsk] ... In 2030, we will launch a 300-megawatt fast neutron reactor, the first fourth-generation energy complex on the planet," Likhachev said at a Digital Industry of Industrial Russia (CIPR) conference in Nizhny Novgorod.
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