OREANDA-NEWS. September 17, 2008. The 3rd International Conference “Heavy Liquid Metal Coolants in Nuclear Technologies” is taking place at the State Central Institute for Chief Executive Training (SCICET) on Sept 15–19 2008. The conference has been organized by the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) and is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the pilot launch of the world’s first nuclear reactor with lead-bismuth coolant. This type of reactor was used by eight Soviet submarines.  

Specialists from Italy, Korea, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium, Japan, the Czech Republic, the United States, representatives of International Atomic Energy Agency, research companies of Switzerland, Russia, employees and veterans of IPPE are taking part in the conference.
 
The program of the conference includes plenary sessions and sections concerning the history of the 27/VT stand and liquid metal coolants, research of corrosion resistance of steels in heavy liquid metal coolants, studies of relevant technologies and thermal-hydraulic processes in heavy liquid metal coolant flow, production of instruments for measuring the parameters of heavy liquid metal coolants, etc.

While opening the conference, the head of the administration of Obninsk N.Shubin and representatives of Rosatom companies welcomed the conferees, the employees and veterans of IPPE and the designers and operators of the 27/VT stand – the world’s first reactor with heavy liquid metal coolant (eutectic lead-bismuth alloy), the prototype of reactors for submarines and the first stone in the foundations of the civilian nuclear power industry.