Overview

• President Vladimir Putin announced the goal at the World Nuclear Week forum, pointing to the Seversk project that pairs the BREST‑OD‑300 fast reactor with on‑site fuel reprocessing.
• IAEA official Mikhail Chudakov said the scheme aims to avoid uranium enrichment in this configuration and to “burn” minor actinides to reduce long‑lived waste.
• Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachov outlined a distributed model that would place VVER units abroad and conduct fast‑reactor reprocessing in Russia, with Belarus’s Ostrovets plant cited as a potential participant.
• Rosatom’s Andrey Nikipelov said production has started on 100 MW floating power units for southern regions, as the corporation operates a plant in Chukotka and builds units for the Baimsky project.
• Separately, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been without external power for three days and is relying on diesel generators for safety systems, according to the station’s communications director.