Brief Review of the Projects Performed by RFNC-VNIITF in the Field of Environment Protection and on Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells Russian Federal Nuclear Center Academician Zababakhin Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF) V. Kuranov VNIITF Snezhinsk

Ecoanalytical monitoring  Project #060 “Evaluation of the potential health risks resulting from worker and public exposures to toxic and radioactive substances in the Chelyabinsk Region”.  Project #342 “Research and Development of Electrochemical Instruments and Procedures for Environmental Monitoring”  Project #342-2 “Development of On-line System Based on a Long-lived Sensor for Measuring Concentrations of Toxic Elements in River Water”  Project #1095 “Atmospheric Transport of Radioactivity in the Vicinity of the Karachai Lake”. VNIITF Snezhinsk

Ecoanalytical monitoring Several Projects were performed together with the scientists from Kirghizia, for example Project #КР-330 “Study of Natural Processes Taking Place in Issyk-Kul Lake and Issyk-Kul Depression by Means of Isotope Methods”. Project #500 “The Assessment of Priorities for Middle Urals' Environmental Pollution Prevention”, which was aimed at investigation of ecosystem of the city Karabash in the Middle Urals. VNIITF Snezhinsk

Rehabilitation of the territories Project #1872 “Working out a Program of Remediation and Development of the City of Karabash by Implementing Technologies for Recovery of Its Technogenic Resources”. This Project is the follow-up of the Project #500. VNIITF Snezhinsk

Radioactive wastes handling  Project # 17 “Feasibility study of technologies for accelerator based conversion of military plutonium and long-lived radioactive waste”  Project #33 “Nuclear waste management and disposal at MAYAK site”  Project # 698 “Experimental Mock-Up of Accelerators- Based Facility for Transmutation of Radioactive Waste and Conversion of Military Plutonium”  Project # 793 “Experimental and Theoretical Study of Chemical and Physical Properties of Rocks as natural Barrier in Radioactive Waste Disposal”.  Project # 1815P “Cleanup of High Level Waste Tanks. Feasibility study”. VNIITF Snezhinsk

Solid oxide fuel cell  Project #15179 with EPRI (USA) “Studies of barium ceria electrolyte” (Lab-To-Lab) Project # WO with EPRI (USA) “Development of Manufacturing Methods and Research of Properties of the Fuel Cells on the Basis of Proton-Conducting Barium Zirconate and Barium Praseodymium Oxide (Pr 6 O 11 )” (Lab-To-Lab)  Project # AQ-3351 with SNL (USA) “Materials, used for gas sealing as applied for solid oxide fuel cells” (Lab-To-Lab)  Project # AХ-9003 with SNL (USA) “Materials, used for gas sealing as applied for solid oxide fuel cells” (Lab-To-Lab)  Project IPP-ANL-057-RS with ANL (USA) “Sealants for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells on the basis of Lanthanum Borate” (IPP) VNIITF Snezhinsk

Solid oxide fuel cell  Project IPP-ANL-059-RS with ANL (USA) “Improvement of Mechanical Strengths of Electrolyte for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells” (IPP)  ISTC Project # 483 “Development of New Technologies for Manufacturing of Al 2 O 3, TiO 2 and ZrO 2 Nanoceramics for Dies and High-Temperature Fuel Cells”  ISTC Project # 1127 “Researches on development of a method of surface micromechanical tests of metal oxide thin-film heat resisting coatings on metal-ceramic substrates for high-temperature fuel cells”  ISTC Project # 1231 “Development of the vacuum-plasma methods for production of thin-film materials of high-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for electrochemical power plants ” VNIITF Snezhinsk

Major results of glass-sealants project Major results of glass-sealants projectVNIITF Snezhinsk

Demonstration projects Snezhinsk VNIITF  ISTC Project # 1647 “Development, manufacture and demonstration tests of 2.5 kW power solid oxide cells stack”  ISTC Project # 2277 “Development of Electrochemical Oxygen Pumps”

Field of solid oxide fuel cell research Snezhinsk VNIITF prospect