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Lessons learned from the experience of operating lead-bismuth nuclear power reactors
The paper analyses accidents and emergencies that occurred at reactor plants having a lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) located in nuclear submarines and prototype ground-based facilities. Accidents and emergencies ...
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А History of Coronitic Metagabbronorites in the Belomorian Province, Fennoscandian Shield: U-Pb (CA-ID-TIMS) Dating of Zircon–Baddeleyite Aggregates
The estimation of crystallization and metamorphic reworking ages of mafic rocks in the polycyclic Precambrian areas is a difficult problem. Magmatic baddeleyite can be partially or completely replaced by polyc...
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Mafic Intrusions of ca. 2400 Ма Large Igneous Province in the Belomorian Mobile Belt: First Baddeleyite U–Pb ID-TIMS Data
U–Pb ID-TIMS dating of igneous baddeleyite from metamorphosed coronitic gabbronorites in the сentral part of the Belomorian mobile belt, Fennoscandian shield was performed for the first time. The obtained age ...
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A Tectonic Remnant of the Mesoarchean Oceanic Lithosphere in the Belomorian Province, Fennoscandian Shield
The results of detailed geological map**, coupled with the isotope-geochemical study of a metamorphosed mafic-ultramafic complex known as the Central Belomorian Belt located in the Belomorian province of the...
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2.5 Ga gabbro-anorthosites in the Belomorian Province, Fennoscandian Shield: Petrology and tectonic setting
The Vorochistoozersky, Nizhnepopovsky, and Severo-Pezhostrovsky gabbro-anorthosite massifs have been studied in the central part of the Belomorian Province, Fennoscandian Shield. The similarity of geological s...
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2.3 Ga intraplate magmatism on the Karelian Craton: Implications for the problem of “endogenic shutdown” in the Paleoproterozoic
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Lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor for regional power generation
A condition for adopting low-capacity nuclear power plants in regional power generation is that they be competitive with thermal power plants. However, it is much more difficult to make low-capacity plants com...
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Autoimmune process after long-term low-level exposure to electromagnetic field (experimental results). Part I. Mobile communications and changes in electromagnetic conditions for the population. Need for additional substantiation of existing hygienic standards
Mobile communications provides a new source of electromagnetic exposure for almost the whole population of Russia. For the first time in the history of civilization, the brain of mobile phone users is exposed ...
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The Archean of the Baltic Shield: Geology, Geochronology, and Geodynamic settings
The Archean provinces and lithotectonic complexes of the Baltic (Fennoscandian) Shield are considered. The supracrustal complexes are classified by age: <3.2, 3.10–2.90, 2.90–2.82, 2.82–2.75, and 2.75–2.65 Ga....
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The SVBR-75/100 reactor installation. An assessment of the possibility of using it in projects for refurbishing power units of nuclear power stations equipped with VVER reactors
It is shown that use in the nuclear power industry of Russia of a nuclear technology employing modular multipurpose fast-neutron small-capacity reactors with lead-bismuth coolant will make it possible to consi...
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Shore-based nuclear desalination power complex based on a transportable reactor unit with a SVBR-75/100 reactor
The exhaustion and pollution of water sources is already making it difficult to supply water to the public, industry, and agriculture in many regions of the world. It is expected that by 2025 two thirds of the...
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SVBR-75/100 Multipurpose Modular Low-Power Fast Reactor with Lead–Bismuth Coolant
The results of development work on the SVBR-75/100 modular fast reactor cooled by lead–bismuth coolant are presented. The design is based on the experience gained operating reactors in nuclear-powered submarin...
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Investigation of VVÉR-1000 Behavior in a Transient Process Caused by a Small Power Decrease
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Xenon Oscillations in a VVÉR-1000 Core
Xenon oscillations – periodic redistribution of the power over the core volume – can occur in a VVÉR-1000 core because of the large size of this core. The xenon oscillations can be conventionally divided into ...
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Nuclear Power Plants Based on Reactor Modules with SVBR-75/100
The basic results of the development of a design of a nuclear power plant with two 1600 MW(e) unit, each based on a lead–bismuth-cooled 100 MW(e) SVBR-75/100 fast reactor, are presented. A brief description is...
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Problems of Utilization of Cores and Nuclear Submarine Compartments with Lead - Bismuth Cooled Reactors
Paper to the International Scientific Seminar on analysis of the risk associated with decommissioning, storage and utilization of nuclear submarines. At present, all the nuclear submarines (NS) with nuclear po...
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Liquid-metal lead-bismuth target for high-energy protons as an intense source of neutrons in accelerator-controlled systems
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Inherently safe lead — bismuth — cooled reactors
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Improving the performance indices of open-hearth furnaces when fired by natural gas under high pressure
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Metallurgical slags