The ADE-2 is a
dual use water-cooled
Cooling tower and water discharge of a nuclear power plant
Water cooling is a method of heat removal from components and industrial equipment. Evaporative cooling using water is often more efficient than air cooling. Water is inexpensive and no ...
thermal
A thermal column (or thermal) is a rising mass of buoyant air, a convective current in the atmosphere, that transfers heat energy vertically. Thermals are created by the uneven heating of Earth's surface from solar radiation, and are an example ...
graphite-moderated reactor. The reactor was dual-purpose - producing
weapons-grade plutonium and providing heat and electricity.
The
RBMK
The RBMK (, РБМК; ''reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy'', "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of graphite moderated reactor, graphite-moderated nuclear reactor, nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is so ...
series nuclear reactors are based off the ADE series reactors.
History
Construction started in December 1963. The reactor was shut down in April 2010.
The scope of decommissioning was much greater than with AD and ADE-1, which were single-purpose and performed only defense tasks.
In 2021 it was decided to make ADE-2 a museum exhibition.
Other similar types
These two sources show slightly different date of start and shutdown.
Legacy AD and ADE-1 are almost decommissioned. ADE-3, ADE-4, and ADE-5 were being decommissioned as of 2024.
See also
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MBIR - multi-loop research reactor intends to replace
BOR-60. In construction since 2015, est. completion in 2027.
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RBMK
The RBMK (, РБМК; ''reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy'', "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of graphite moderated reactor, graphite-moderated nuclear reactor, nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is so ...
- is a class of
graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
.
References
External links
Agreement between US and Russia on closing of ADE-2, ADE-4, ADE-5
{{Nuclear power in Russia
Graphite-moderated reactor
Nuclear power in Russia