Icebreaker "Vaigach" broke the record for operating a nuclear installation

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The Vaigach nuclear-powered ship broke the world record for the duration of the nuclear power plant’s nuclear power plant operation, Atomflot’s press service reported on Friday.

On February 16, 2018, the icebreaker Vaigach broke the record for the duration of operation of a nuclear power plant, reached by the nuclear icebreaker Arktika in August, 2008. A new record was 177,205 thousand hours (the previous value - 177,204 thousand hours)
- said in a statement.



Icebreaker "Vaigach" broke the record for operating a nuclear installation


This became possible due to the fact that in 2017, Rosatomflot specialists together with the design office of Afrikantov OKBM JSC completed work on extending the service life of the nuclear power plants of the Vaigach and Taimyr nuclear icebreakers. The operating time of the plants received a scientific substantiation and extended to 200 thousand hours. This made it possible to eliminate the emergence of an “ice break” (a period of shortage of operating icebreakers due to the expiration of the operating period of the old ones and the absence of new ships).

At the same time, the initial resource of the nuclear power plant of the icebreakers Vaigach and Taimyr did not exceed 100 in thousands of hours. Thus, the term has doubled.

This work allows the enterprise to use four atomic icebreakers efficiently.
- noted in the company.

Atomic icebreaker "Vaigach" (type "Taimyr" was put into operation in 1990 year. Its length is 151,8 m, width - 29,2 m, displacement 21 thousand tons., Power of the main installation - 50 thousand liters. With., TASS reports
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  1. +3
    16 February 2018 16: 25
    Only if for purely practical purposes, and not a record for the record! Although, our nonsense will not do so, to wipe the nose of others, just because they ordered!
    1. +3
      16 February 2018 16: 29
      Quote: Herkulesich
      Although, our nonsense will not do so, to wipe the nose of others, just because they ordered!

      Yes, yes ... it remains only to erase from memory, which led to the tragedy of Chernobyl.
      1. +11
        16 February 2018 16: 31
        Quote: svp67
        Yes, yes ... it remains only to erase from memory, which led to the tragedy of Chernobyl.

        Well, certainly not an extension of the resource ..
        1. 0
          16 February 2018 16: 32
          Quote: dvina71
          Well, certainly not an extension of the resource ..

          Well, just an experiment to obtain additional energy ... What is there, what is there an attempt to obtain economic benefits.
          1. +5
            16 February 2018 16: 34
            Quote: svp67
            Well, just an experiment to obtain additional energy ...

            Not exactly .. Experienced people claim that local scientific personnel tried to work out the technology of power control .. at the reactor not intended for this ..
            1. +1
              16 February 2018 17: 41
              Yes, this is one of the reasons, and of course, an unsuccessful combination of several unfavorable factors leading to the accident, including the mistakes of the staff itself.
      2. 0
        16 February 2018 17: 47
        The initial design flaws of the RBMK-1000 reactor led to the Chernobyl disaster, and not the tests, which by the way were completed and the explosion of the reactor occurred when it was shut down, to the article also planned.
        1. +3
          16 February 2018 18: 31
          Alas, not only. The positive temperature effect of reactivity, the “wet” AZ and the displacer on the AZ rods, of course, took place. But all this was superimposed on staff errors. But whether records are needed in the nuclear fleet, as in the fleet in general, is a moot point. There were precedents, you know. in the 30s, records were set, who took longer without a dock, and as the war broke out, they were left without a merchant fleet. Experiments to extend the life of fuel rods were also carried out in the USSR. It ended sadly. During the unloading of the shell zone, they began to crumble. Maybe, of course, now technology has gone ahead.
        2. +1
          16 February 2018 18: 33
          Who said they were finished? They were just carried out with a serious violation of the safety regulations of the reactor. But the Woodpecker didn’t want to listen when the power of the reactor fell from the values ​​that were conceived when testing the run-out of the turbogenerator rotor (((
          1. 0
            16 February 2018 23: 21
            On April 26, 1986, at one hour twenty three minutes forty seconds, the shift supervisor of the Chernobyl NPP unit 4, Alexander Akimov, ordered the reactor to be shut off after completion of work carried out before the shutdown of the power unit for the scheduled repair. The command was given in a quiet working environment, the central control system does not record a single alarm or warning signal about the deviation of the parameters of the reactor or service systems. Reactor operator Leonid Toptunov removed the cap from the AZ button to protect against accidental erroneous pressing and pressed the button. By this signal, 187 rods of the reactor control system of the reactor began to move down into the active zone. The backlight bulbs lit up on the mimic panel, and the arrows for the position indicators of the rods came into motion. Alexander Akimov, halfway to the reactor control panel, observed this, also saw that the “bunnies” of the AR unbalance indicators “darted to the left” (his expression), as it should be, which meant reducing the reactor power, turned to the safety panel, which was observed by the experiment.
            But then what happened was something that even the most unbridled fantasy could not predict. After a slight decrease, the reactor power suddenly began to increase at an ever-increasing speed, and alarms appeared. L. Toptunov shouted about an emergency increase in power. But to do anything was not in his power. All he could do was hold the AZ button, the CPS rods went into the active zone. There are no other means at his disposal. Yes, and all the others too. A. Akimov sharply shouted: "Turn off the reactor!" I jumped to the console and de-energized the electromagnetic couplings of the drives of the CPS rods. The action is true, but useless. After all, the logic of the CPS, that is, all its elements of logic circuits, worked correctly, the rods went into the zone. Now it’s clear - after pressing the AZ button there was no right action, there was no means of salvation. Another logic failed!
            With a short interval, two powerful explosions followed. The AZ rods stopped moving, not having completed half the way. They had nowhere else to go.
            At one hour, twenty-three minutes, forty-seven seconds, the reactor was destroyed by acceleration of power by instant neutrons. This is a crash, the ultimate catastrophe that could be in an energy reactor. They did not comprehend it, did not prepare for it, no technical measures for localization at the block and station were provided. There are no organizational measures.
            1. +3
              17 February 2018 04: 02
              To begin with, he held the KG button, not the AZ. For the latter, you do not need to hold it, clicked and that's it. It is necessary to hold it in AZ pickup mode so that it does not go down. But at that moment, it was too late. The temperature rising in the first circuit already accelerated the reaction faster than the groups of absorber rods went down. And then it was the AZ discharge that led to acceleration by instant neutrons. The fact is that, unlike VVER, a wet type AZ is installed at RBMK, however, like KG. On VVER, absorbent rods fly into dry pipes in fractions of a second and extinguish the reaction instantly. At RBMK, AZ pipes are pumped with water, so the rods go down more slowly - once, and a “displacer" is installed at the ends of the rods, which pushes out water - two. The absorbing capacity of the displacer (stainless steel) is even less than that of the surrounding materials of the zone, which led to an additional surge in power, boiling of the coolant and rupture of the reactor. At least about this analysis was given to us by professor Kuznetsov, the author of all textbooks on ship automatic control systems.
            2. 0
              19 February 2018 10: 14
              Where did you get this? The beginning of the first paragraph is nonsense ... This is fundamentally not the right information. Monkfish correctly noticed the lack of absorber rods. In general, here:
              https://topwar.ru/113508-chernobylskaya-tetrad-ch
              ast-1.html
              https://topwar.ru/114287-chernobylskaya-tetrad-ch
              ast-2.html
              If you want to read, everything is detailed, with a preface - how it started. There is no ending in VO, you have to search the Internet.
        3. +2
          17 February 2018 00: 08
          vanya, stop raving out loud and ... talking nonsense .... You have an ultimate disaster in your head, change your sources ....
      3. +2
        16 February 2018 18: 04
        Quote: svp67
        Yes, yes ... it remains only to erase from memory, which led to the tragedy of Chernobyl.

        And what analogy is visible in your brain? Fukushima still lay there and all the world incidents with nuclear reactors. And also all the accidents at hydroelectric power stations and other energy sources. And in Holland, a wind generator fell ...
        1. 0
          16 February 2018 18: 18
          Quote: Piramidon
          And in Holland, a wind generator fell ...

          The fall of a windmill is certainly a sad thing, but unlike unsuccessful experiments with nuclear power plants, it does not entail such detrimental consequences.
        2. 0
          17 February 2018 11: 33
          A demotivator from my life, a daughter of 6 years old, having overheard a conversation of adult uncles at a table in the kitchen, enters with Big Eyes: “Dad, are you Fukushima too!?” The four precipitated for about 15 minutes, just neighing to tears. And the conversation was for "Lepse" (For those who are in the subject).
  2. +6
    16 February 2018 16: 26
    The life of the installations received scientific justification and extended to 200 thousand hours.
    The extension of the resource is normal, but with a nuclear reactor the main thing is that the scientific justification be error-free. However, there is probably enough experience ...
    1. +1
      16 February 2018 16: 31
      Quote: KVU-NSVD
      The extension of the resource is normal, but with a nuclear reactor the main thing is that the scientific justification be error-free. However, there is probably enough experience ...

      So I understand that during the tests at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the same thing was thought. Here I recall an old, children's joke that in atomic physics the worst word is: "Oops !!!"
      1. +7
        16 February 2018 16: 35
        So I understand that during the tests at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the same thing was thought. Here I recall an old, children's joke that in atomic physics the worst word is: "Oops !!!"
        Bitter experience is also experience, the main thing is to learn lessons ..
      2. 0
        16 February 2018 18: 09
        Quote: svp67
        So I understand that during the tests at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, they also thought the same

        You still remember the times of the world's first nuclear power plants. Probably, all the emergency situations that occurred with the reactors are taken into account without regard to the advice of "experts" from social networks.
        1. +1
          16 February 2018 18: 20
          Quote: Piramidon
          Probably, all the emergency situations that occurred with the reactors are taken into account without regard to the advice of "experts" from social networks.

          What do you think at the Chernobyl NPP the same thing was thought when the reactor protection was turned off during the experiment?
          1. 0
            16 February 2018 18: 39
            What they did by disabling protection was the negligence of pure water and incompetence as the head of A. Dyatlov. Everyone was sure - that garbage supposedly carry, the experiment will be completed and at home.
            Now it is already seriously approaching this (well, must).
            1. +1
              16 February 2018 19: 00
              Quote: Archivist Vasya
              Now it is already seriously approaching this (well, must).

              So I realized that the keywords are your thoughts
              Quote: Archivist Vasya
              well should
            2. 0
              16 February 2018 23: 13
              the protection did not turn off, moreover, after the end of the tests, the reactor was shut off by pressing the emergency protection button, and no one could have foreseen in a nightmare that just pressing the emergency protection button would correct the catastrophe.
    2. +1
      16 February 2018 18: 06
      Quote: KVU-NSVD
      with a nuclear reactor, the main thing is that the scientific justification be error-free

      Well, probably not a shkolota decision.
    3. +1
      16 February 2018 18: 29
      KVU-NSVD Today, 16:26
      There is enough experience, but you can’t extend the life of the device forever (you shouldn’t joke with a peaceful atom as well). The installation resource was doubled-well done (they sat at the table and decided to limit the installation capacity to a certain percentage).
      It does not solve the problems — new ones need to be built.
      I’ve been talking with guys from OKBM for a long time, smart engineers (although they don’t send stupid businessmen on business trips). Although there were some funny things like “What the hell ....” “I” did it for a minute pause, that's why I arrived, ”
      Then, on-line changes were made to the design of the product, it works without complaints. Its topic is handling equipment.
      1. +6
        16 February 2018 18: 35
        It does not solve the problems — new ones need to be built.
        So they build smile And the extension of the resource in anticipation of the renewal of the icebreaker fleet
        This made it possible to exclude the occurrence of an “ice break” (a period of shortage of existing icebreakers due to the end of the working life of old and the absence of new vessels).
        hi
        1. 0
          16 February 2018 19: 21
          Alas, icebreakers with such characteristics are not being built. Icebreakers are being built to guide wide Suitcases along the NSR.
  3. +5
    16 February 2018 16: 34
    Great photo. Vaigach personifies Russia. Among the icy spaces and the polar night, a handsomely bright man, illuminating the paths with the help of searchlights, is able to break severe ice and move in spite of difficult conditions to his goal, thanks to the coordinated actions of the crew and an experienced captain.
    The icebreaking fleet of Russia and its people is our beauty and pride.
    1. +3
      16 February 2018 16: 49
      Quote: cedar
      Great photo. Vaigach personifies Russia.
      Honestly, it’s not very good ... If you take the first Vaigach icebreaker, then yes, it was laid down in 1907 in St. Petersburg at the Nevsky Shipyard, launched in 1908, and entered service in 1909. But the atomic, not so complete, hull was laid down at the Holstrom Histalahti shipyard of the Vyartsilya Marine Technique concern in Helsinki (Finland). But I agree that the ships are beautiful, and most importantly NEEDED.
      Here came and rescued a container ship wiped by ice ...
      1. +1
        16 February 2018 18: 48
        Case - yes. But, rather, not because they themselves could not, but because it was necessary to provide orders for "friends". But the reactor is already ours.
        1. 0
          16 February 2018 19: 01
          Quote: Monkfish
          But, rather, not because they themselves could not, but because it was necessary to provide orders for "friends".

          Nevertheless, there are fewer complaints about Finnish hulls with an icebreaker than our hulls ...
          1. +1
            17 February 2018 00: 34
            svp67 Today, 19: 01
            I always considered your comments to be objective, but let me disagree here.
            All project documentation for the building, superstructure, decoration was really provided by us by Vyartsilya, except for saturation of the automatic control system. By the way, all the metal for the construction of icebreakers was also supplied by us. For information, most of Russia's non-nuclear icebreakers were built there.
            Correctly said, "Sea Devil" in part, there were no free slipways with us. And not from a good life, we loaded the Finns shipyards.
            1. 0
              17 February 2018 15: 27
              Vyartsilya are excellent partners .. how many steamers they made for the USSR! How many icebreakers !!! Really long-term, very fruitful cooperation .. several series of diesel electric ships, series of five or six icebreakers of various classes and displacement .. And of course, these are two brothers: Taimyr and Vaigach ... An invaluable contribution to the development of ours This Finnish shipyard actually brought the Arctic ..
    2. +2
      16 February 2018 18: 44
      My "Russia" on the edge of the Earth,
      And only in the lights in the night did Dixon fall asleep.
      The hummocks were wrinkled
      On the face of the ocean white plaster.
      A blizzard roared like a heart-rending howl
      Entangled in the antennas of an icebreaker,
      And like in a Pushkin’s blizzard then,
      Perhaps someone’s fate has split.
      A gray-haired dawn rises over the Arctic
      Over the Arctic, a frosty crisp smell,
      My "Russia" breaks the ice
      And with a caravan moves west.
      (I don’t know the author)
  4. 0
    16 February 2018 17: 44
    Thirty years of work, good performance. It is necessary to bring to fifty dollars, there is a reserve for work.
  5. 0
    16 February 2018 17: 48
    It looks impressive. But it’s even scary to think what kind of air resistance this square “streamlined” House creates.
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 18: 27
      At the speed at which ice breaks, air resistance is negligible.
      1. +2
        16 February 2018 18: 52
        But how he shakes him while he goes to the Kara Gate from Murmansk! By the way, I won’t say anything about small-sized ones, but an icebreaker of the Arctic type can produce up to 20 knots in pure water. In 2 meter ice - up to 5 knots.
        1. 0
          17 February 2018 15: 10
          All punts shallow-sitting shipyard "Vyartsilya" chatting mercilessly ... - such is the fee for shallow draft for entering the mouth of Siberian rivers ..)) The record is of course set ..- but it speaks more about the shortage of ships of this class - that's what they squeeze out dry that is still on the move ... With the atomic monsters of the Arctic type, this steamboat can certainly compete only in terms of crew comfort ...
  6. 0
    16 February 2018 20: 20
    I think now they will send him as humanitarian aid to the natives of Greenland, there ... closer.
  7. +2
    19 February 2018 08: 34
    I’ll insert my 5 cents. 177,205 thousand hours is 20,22 years (twenty years and two and a half months). I don’t see anything special here. One transport nuclear power plant worked for 23 years and 5 months without any complaints. Of the two basics, only one went into an acceptable state, but was operational. And yes, I am very negative about all measures to extend the service life (or operation) of a nuclear power plant. The constructor inadvertently laid in them: 10 years of operation, then repair. Then again 10 years of operation. And all extensions are from poverty. And by the way, a stone towards OKBM. I did not understand their obstinacy, worthy of a better application, regarding the washing of GHGs. We rested for a long time, but in the end, the decision was made in the upper echelons. Washed was carried out - PGPG flowed ... That's all, hello nuclear power limitation.
    1. 0
      19 February 2018 13: 46
      Alex, welcome hi And what is this GHG? And what is a GPPG? request
      R.S. And Vadim and Arthur sit somewhere. You promised to get them out of the “den”. belay
      1. +2
        20 February 2018 07: 31
        Greetings, Sergey!
        GHG is a steam generator, GGP is a steam generator. And Vadim and Arthur are injecting somewhere, I myself have not communicated with them a long time ago. Do not worry, they will be tightened as soon as they become more free.
        1. 0
          20 February 2018 07: 42
          With steam generators, I see. The old man yesterday flashed in one of the articles and disappeared. Arthur hasn't stopped by since last summer. Offended by something?
          1. +2
            20 February 2018 08: 14
            I don’t know about Archie. But judging by his new hairstyle of the "nonconformist" type, he got in somewhere, a bastard.
            1. 0
              20 February 2018 08: 28
              Did not try to shame? What are they supposed to do? But what about the Navy? A couple of times a week you can find time, but leave it in the articles of marine comments. It’s time for both of them to be kaprazy, and they filon.
  8. 0
    24 February 2018 12: 33
    Compare ship reactors and those at power plants is incorrect. These reactors are in principle different. Marine reactors are much more reliable. But an order of magnitude more expensive, over ... :-)

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