An agreement has been signed to develop a small nuclear power plant (SNPP) to provide environment-friendly and stable power to the Sovinoye gold deposit in the Chukotka region located on the north-eastern tip of Eurasia in the Russian Far East.
The agreement, reached at the Eastern Economic Forum held at Vladivostok, Russia, in September 2023, was signed between two subsidiaries of the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom – its mining division Atomredmetzoloto and Rosatom’s integrator for small nuclear plants, RAOS.
A Rosatom statement said the agreement provides for implementing a small nuclear power plant project based on the advanced reactor “Shelf-M technology with power of up to 10 MW, which is considered to be an efficient solution to satisfy the need for power supply of the Sovinoye deposit as well as the adjacent promising ore fields and the residential settlement of Leningradsky.”