Consortium

ROSATOM calls for an international partnership based on the new MBIR reactor

FUNCTIONS
GOALS
OBJECTIVES

New members join the MBIR project by signing a Consortium Agreement, which forms the foundation for an International Research Center based on the MBIR reactor (IRC MBIR).

The Consortium provides bilateral and multilateral scientific programs and promotes international research partnerships and scientific cooperation with the aim of, iтеук alia, developing Generation IV technologies and implementation of a two-component nuclear power system.

The Consortium establishes uniform rules and conditions for the allocation and utilization by members of reactor capabilities within the MBIR core and shield for various reactor-based research activities and materials irradiation.

CONTROLS

Advisory Board is a regular advisory body responsible for the management, coordination, methodological and analytical support, and expertise of the Science Program.

The Governing Committee is responsible for management and administrative issues in terms of preparing budgets and roadmaps, as well as auditing and monitoring the implementation of rules within the Consortium's activities.

The IRC MBIR Council is the supreme governing body of the Consortium, consists of representatives of the key members, and is responsible for the overall strategic management and control of the Consortium's activities.

ADVISORY BOARD



Functions
Goals
Objectives

The Advisory Board is a regular advisory body responsible for the management, coordination, methodological and analytical support, and expertise of the Research Program at MBIR

The Advisory Board is an expert community of scientists that will determine the main directions of research at MBIR, and form the scientific Research Program, taking into account the interests of all Consortium participants.

The Advisory Board consists of Member representatives, the Consortium Leader, the RIAR reactor operator, institutional organizations that have declared their intention to join the Consortium as participants, as well as current or potential partners and/or participants of multilateral research programs to be implemented on the MBIR basis.

The Advisory Board shall review and advise the IRC MBIR Council and the Governing Committee on scientific and technical matters related to the implementation of the MBIR project and research activities at the MBIR will be implemented at the MBIR.

CHAIRMAN of Advisory Board

STEPAN NIKOLAEVICH KALMYKOV

Born on October 29, 1974. RAS Professor.

Vice-president of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS), academician, scientific director of the Faculty of Chemistry of the MSU.

Doctor of Chemical Science, chairman of the Shenzhen MSU-BIT University’s Board of Directors.

A specialist in radiochemistry, whose research works are related to modern directions of radiochemistry.

Prizes and awards
  • V.G. Khlopin Prize of the RAS. Awarded in 2016 for the cycle of works Radiochemical Aspects of Closed NFC and its Environmental Impact.
  • Laureate of the I. I. Shuvalov Prize.
  • Laureate in the field of energy and related sciences.
  • Laureate of the Russian President's grant competition.
  • Laureate of the diploma 100 Best Inventions of Russia.
  • Badge For Contribution to the Development of the Nuclear Industry of Rosatom State Corporation.
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  • he first showed the dominant role of colloidal particles in the transfer of plutonium with groundwater from radioactive waste disposal sites and determined its physical and chemical forms under different geochemical conditions. He invented new methods of radionuclide extraction and separation from aqueous solutions using carbon nanomaterials and new organic extractants;
  • new method for producing medical radionuclides (225Ac, 223Ra, 67Cu, etc.) for targeted therapy of oncological diseases was proposed and realized.
  • He is a lecturer: lectures at Lomonosov Moscow State University, supervises graduate theses, has prepared 7 PhDs, and has been a lecturer at a number of international summer schools.
  • He is a scientific secretary of the Interdepartmental Scientific Council on Radiochemistry, a member of the bureau of the National Committee of Russian Chemists, and a member of the editorial boards of the scientific scientific journals Radiochimica Acta, Solvent ExtractionandI on Exchange, Radiochemistry, Radiation Safety Issues, and Radioactive Waste.
  • His works are well known abroad: as an invited speaker he has presented at more than 25 international international conferences, and he is a permanent member of the organizing committees in international conferences: Actinides, Pufutures, Actinide XAS, NRC, and others.
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Advisory Board Committees

Materials and fuel research
  • Generation IV
  • MOX CER-CER
  • Nitride UАl
  • Metal UC
  • Thorium UN
  • CER-MEt UMo
Safety of nuclear technology application
  • Reliability justification
  • Resource justification
  • Modeling of standard and beyond design conditions of NPP, assemblies, materials, and fuel Justification of serviceability
Non-power applications of nuclear technologies
  • Nuclear medicine / Isotopes and BNCT
  • Isotope tailoring
  • Nuclear education
  • Radiation technologies
  • Engineering of nuclear installations
  • UCN
NFC closing
  • Radiochemical studies
  • MA burning
  • Multiple reuse
  • Processing of SNF and RW
Code validation
  • Process modeling transient and emergency modes
  • Calculation codes

Video about the Advisory Board

The first meeting of the Advisory Board of the International Research Center MBIR was held in July 2022 on the basis of JSC “SSC RIAR”. More than 80 scientists, experts, and managers from more than thirty leading scientific centers of Russia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Algeria, Armenia, international organizations of the IAEA and JINR took part in the event in person and online.

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"Our event today is an essential starting point for future long-term collaborative work in this area. I would like to note that we are considering member-organizations on the Advisory Board as potential members of the IRC MBIR Consortium. I am confident that joint work on the Advisory Board will help all its members to gain a fuller understanding of all the capabilities of this truly unique facility and will lay a solid foundation for our future even closer cooperation", - said Yuri Olenin, Deputy Director General for Science and Strategy of the State Corporation Rosatom.

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MEMBERSHIP FORMS

KEY MEMBERS
ASSOCIATES

Joining as a Key Member is possible already during the construction phase and gives the members the mechanism of access to the reactor resource for all period of exploitation, creates the preferential prices for acquirement of the services regarding materials irradiation in active zone of the reactor, gives possibilities for participating all its organizations, and allows to change the configuration of the reactor and the research program being carried out. Key members maximize both economic and scientific-practical benefits from working on the MBIR reactor.

The Associated Member will only have access to conduct research within the side shield area, where the neutron flux is significantly lower than in the core. Such members will only be offered the opportunity to participate in the IRC MBIR Advisory Board during the term of the respective executed contract and to receive irradiation services for materials at market prices that are significantly higher than those of the Key Member.

PROJECT MEMBERS

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CONSORTIUM VIDEO

"In the near future, INP is going to enter into an Agreement on Accession to IRC MBIR Consortium, while the related legally binding terms and conditions were signed in November 2022.

Joining IRC MBIR Consortium and access to the MBIR reactor will expand the INP scientific capacity and enable various research in nuclear physics, medicine, reactor materials science, and production of radioisotope products.

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Moreover, MBIR experimental capabilities to study nuclear reactions in stars will justify and check hypotheses and calculations made by Uzbek astrophysicists. High neutron fluxes in the MBIR reactor will help produce new types of radioisotope products, which are physically impossible in other reactors to date", -

Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan Ilham Sadikov.

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