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BN-600 and BN-800

The only commercial fast reactors in continuous operation: Beloyarsk 3 since 1980 and Beloyarsk 4 since 2016.

Beloyarsk's BN-600 has operated since 1980 and is the fast reactor with the most operating hours in the world, despite dozens of sodium leaks in its early years. The BN-800, from 2016, is its successor: 880 MWe gross, MOX fuel with weapons-grade plutonium from disarmament, and the basis for closing the Russian fuel cycle.

Rosatom is designing the BN-1200, still without a firm date, and in parallel is building the lead-cooled BREST-OD-300 at Seversk.

Quick facts

PowerBN-600: 560 MWe; BN-800: 820 MWe net
Coolantsodium, pool type
FuelMOX in the BN-800
NextBN-1200 and BREST-OD-300