1. Sosny Research and Development Company
© Sosny R&D Company, 2017
Sosny Research and Development Company
Nuclear Safety Solutions

2. ABOUT THE COMPANY
Sosny Research and Development Company was set up in Dimitrovgrad in 1992.
Main activities: design of equipment and development of technologies for the nuclear fuel cycle.
Sosny R&D Company has its offices in three Russian cities: Moscow, Dimitrovgrad and Elektrostal. Total number of employees is 343. Average age is 41.
Key experts of Sosny R&D Company: graduators of universities in Moscow (MSU, MEPhI, MPEI), Saint-Petersburg (SPBU), Yekaterinburg (UFU-UPI), Tomsk (TPI), Ulyanovsk (UlSU) and Dimitrovgrad (branch of MEPhI).
Qualification: 2 Doctors of Engineering Science, 9 Doctors of Philosophy and 12 Ph.D. students. Our personnel are trained in the best advanced training centers in Russia.
Sosny R&D Company performs the whole production process: equipment designing, technology development, safety analysis, manufacture, quality control, mounting and assembling, adjustment and maintenance services

3. ACTIVITIES
Equipment for nuclear power plants and nuclear installations
Automated instrumentation and control systems
Procedures and equipment for SNF and RW management
Design of equipment and systems for nuclear power plants and nuclear facilities.
Fabrication and delivery of equipment and systems for nuclear power plants and nuclear facilities.
Development of power reactor SFA inspection and repair stands, as well as equipment mounting and NPP personnel training.
Process instrumentation and control systems at nuclear facilities.
Process video surveillance systems including those used in high-radiation conditions.
SSCR alarm system.
Automated radiation monitoring systems.
Nuclear material, radioactive substances and radioactive waste control and accounting systems.
Bringing damaged SNF to the safe controllable condition.
Development of methods and tools for handling the spent fuel to transport it to a reprocessing or disposal site.
Nuclear and radiation safety analysis of the procedures and equipment developed.
Transport of radioactive material
Equipment for nuclear fuel production and radiochemical reprocessing of spent fuel
Research and development
Transport of power-grade reactor SFAs to a post-irradiation examination facility.
Transport of Russian-origin non-irradiated and spent nuclear fuel from foreign research reactors to a reprocessing plant.
Transport of Russian research and power-grade reactor SNF to a reprocessing plant.
Procedures and equipment for loading SFAs into shipping casks.
Equipment for shipping the SNF by various conveyances.
Development of equipment for polyfunctional radiochemical research complex at SSC RIAR.
Development of equipment for NPP unit for reprocessing fast reactor SNF.
Development of equipment for special line of the centralized plant for preprocessing fast and thermal reactor SNF.
Research, development, and engineering support of SNF handling projects.
Analytical and methodical studies.
Expert work.

4. RESEARCH, PROCEDURES AND EQUIPMENT FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL MANAGEMENT
Preparation of destructed SFAs for removal from Paks NPP, Hungary, for reprocessing
Preparation of damaged SFAs for removal from Vinca Institute, Serbia, for reprocessing
Equipment for the facility for SFA cutting and loading into canisters at Bilibino NPP, Russia in order to prepare them for removal for reprocessing

5. RESEARCH, PROCEDURES AND EQUIPMENT FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL MANAGEMENT
Equipment for SFA cutting and loading into canisters for further removal from IPPE storage facility, Russia for reprocessing
Equipment for discharge and interim storage of liquid spent fuel of the IIN-3M reactor, Uzbekistan
Equipment and procedure for loading non-conforming RBMK SNF and its removal from Unit 2 of Leningrad NPP, Russia

6. SPECIALIZED AUTOMATED SYSTEMS
Integrated automatic system for non-destructive examination of irradiated elements of fuel assemblies for BN-800 reactor facility
Upgrades to radiation monitoring systems for Units 1 and 2 of Beloyarsk NPP, Russia
System for automated processing of radiation monitoring data at Beloyarsk NPP, Russia
Automated profilometry and eddy current facility for a hot cell at the SSC RIAR material testing facility
SFA inspection and repair stands for Kalinin NPP, Russia, and Temelin NPP, Czech Republic

7. EQUIPMENT FOR REPROCESSING OF SPENT FUEL
Laboratory equipment for radiochemical reprocessing of spent fuel at NPP nuclear fuel cycle facility
Plant for SFA rod-by-rod disassembling and plant for WWER-1000 fuel rod fragmentation for the Experimental Demonstration Center at the Mining and Chemical Combine

8. EQUIPMENT FOR FABRICATION OF NUCLEAR FUEL
Fuel rod production line for the fabrication/ refabrication module for Siberian Group of Chemical
Complex of experimental facilities for development of nitride fuel fabrication technology

9. EQUIPMENT FOR NUCLEAR SUBCRITICAL FACILITY (Kharkov, Ukraine)
Elements of the NSF vessel and pools, internals (reflectors, SFA racks, neutron channels, neutron-generating targets), elements of the shield and cooling systems, equipment for SFA and target storage in the pools, transfer casks
Automated I&C systems, radiation monitoring system, self-sustained chain reaction alarm system

10. TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
Sea vessel was refitted, certified and assigned INF-2 class
Since 2002, Sosny R&D Company has participated in organization of more than 30 RRRFR shipments including SNF air shipments
Railway transporters were designed and manufactured for shipment of TUK and TUK-1410 casks
Transport Plan involving ferry crossing over the Black Sea was prepared to deliver empty TUK-19 casks

11. EQUIPMENT FOR SNF LOADING AND TRANSPORT
Transfer casks for loading spent fuel, including the liquid one, into TUK-19 and SKODA VPVR/M casks
Energy absorbing container for shipping the radioactive materials in SKODA VPVR/M cask with no restrictions on activity by all modes of transport including aircraft
Overpacks for transportation of TUK-19 casks by all modes of transport

12. SAFETY ANALYSIS
Sosny's Safety Analysis Department conducts comprehensive safety analysis of the procedures and equipment developed, including: nuclear and radiation safety, fire and explosion safety, design analysis, risk analysis, safety analysis reports (SAR).
Calculations are made by state-of-the-art software (ANSYS, LsDYNA, MCU-RFFI/A, MMKFK-2-BASE, TDMCC) certified by the regulatory authorities in due order. All experts dealing with the safety analysis have necessary certificates.

13. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Scientific support to all Company’s projects including development of a scientific and methodical basis for the safe handling of the spent fuel in transit, storage and reprocessing, arrangement and support to experiments, analysis of engineering solutions and safety analysis of radioactive material handling.
Experts of Sosny R&D Company are members of the international expert group formed to provide consulting support to Japan in elimination of accident consequences and decommissioning of Fukushima-1 NPP
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14. PILOT PRODUCTION FACILITY
In 2014, the Company launched its own Pilot Production Facility in Dimitrovgrad in order to manufacture the equipment designed by the Company’s specialists, to furnish it with automatic equipment, to carry out different tests and to try out the most critical process operations. This production facility is equipped with modern metal cutting equipment, welding equipment, etc. Also it has necessary quality control equipment

15. QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES
The quality management system of Sosny R&D Company is based on ISO 9001:2008 requirements and confirmed by International Certificate of Registration issued by National Quality Assurance Limited (NQA), Great Britain.  The certification sphere covers:
Design of equipment and development of automatic systems for process monitoring and control, radiation monitoring, emergency alarm, communication and video surveillance for nuclear facilities,
Development of procedures for handling spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste,
Rendering SNF and radwaste handling services to operating organizations, and
Handling nuclear and radioactive materials in the process of their transportation to perform transport and expedition activities.
Sosny R&D Company has all necessary licenses for design, development and manufacture of equipment for nuclear power plants, nuclear material buildings and facilities, and nuclear fuel cycle facilities.

16. THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION!
© Sosny R&D Company, 2017
THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION!
Sosny R&D Company. Nuclear Safety Solutions