Center for Energy Stability (CESTA) SYNERTOGATOM is an international profile association of non-legal forms of private and public organizations with the aim of cooperation in the framework of joint implementation of science-intensive projects, development of innovative technologies, and their practical implementation in the actively developing closed cycle economy, with an emphasis on energy, information and technological security.

Activities of the CESTA SYNERGOATOM

1. Physical and technical modeling of innovative energy technologies:

• combined environmentally friendly energy systems (nuclear and hydrogen energy, natural sources);
• hybrid energy storage systems;
• nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear safety;
• operating nuclear installations, justification of the safety of operation and decommissioning;
• research and development of new materials and technologies for the storage and disposal of nuclear materials, radioactive substances, and radioactive waste;
• study of the radiation impact on personnel, the public, and the environment during normal operation and design basis accidents of nuclear fuel cycle facilities.
• new generation energy (Small modular reactor (SMR) systems, Generation IV reactors)
• nanotechnology, quantum mechanics, robotization, artificial intelligence

2. Strategic planning of scientific and technical development of innovations in power engineering:

• combined environmentally friendly energy systems (nuclear and hydrogen energy, natural sources);
• nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear safety:
• operating nuclear installations, justification of the safety of operation and decommissioning;
• research and development of new materials and technologies for the storage and disposal of nuclear materials, radioactive substances, and radioactive waste;
• study of the radiation impact on personnel, the public, and the environment during normal operation and design basis accidents of nuclear fuel cycle facilities.
• new generation energy (Small modular reactor (SMR) systems, Generation IV reactors)
• nanotechnology, quantum mechanics, robotization, artificial intelligence

3. Fundamental and scientific and technological experimental research in the field of:

• solid state physics, radiation, materials science, condensed state;
  • experimental and theoretical studies of the properties and structure of structural and functional materials under the influence of temperature-force, magnetic, electrical, and radiation effects
  • experimental studies of nanostructures, magnetic materials, and thin surface layers
  • development of new materials and technologies in the nuclear power industry and other fields of technology
• high energy physics, nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, and new methods of acceleration;
  • experimental research and applied research at basic facilities and at accelerators of partner scientific centers
  • Experiments in the field of high-energy physics
  • Experiments in the field of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions
  • Theoretical studies of interactions of elementary particles in space-time with additional dimensions
  • Research in related fields, in particular, the application of experimental methods of nuclear physics for research in the field of solid-state physics, materials science, and nanotechnology
  • Nuclear medicine and biology
• plasma physics and thermonuclear fusion;
  • theoretical plasma physics, calculations, estimates, and modeling
  • experimental plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion
  • fusion reactor problems
  • strengthening links between fusion leaders and other contributing countries

4. Evolutionary philosophy of an energetically stable world:

• Scientific and technical and vocational and educational development:
  • startups in the field of energy technologies;
  • specialized training and retraining of specialists in the energy industry;
  • training of young specialists for work in the energy sector of the new generation;
• General educational and social development:
  • publishing and publication activities in the field of development of scientific and technological progress;
  • organization and holding of international events aimed at scientific, technical, educational, industrial, socio-political, and socio-economic creative interaction.
  • science journalism:
    • Innovative technologies and scientific and technical achievements in the energy sector;
  • community journalism:
    • Formation of a public philosophy of coexistence in an energy-secure world;

Individual members of the Steering Committee of SYNERGOATOM are co-authors of the Patent and co-owners of the Czech technology for the small modular reactor DAVID SMR. SYNERGOATOM manages the business strategy for the international development of the DAVID SMR project, while simultaneously creating macro-regional design centers for the implementation of small-scale nuclear power technologies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as a significant part of Central Asia and the Middle East. The rich experience of Czech engineers and scientists in the field of nuclear energy, in synergy with the similar potential of their Ukrainian colleagues, created the prerequisites that determined Kyiv as the main technological platform for the development of the international direction of construction and installation technologies, in particular on the basis of the Center for Energy Stability SYNERGOATOM.

Development of equipment for long-term dry storage of SNF, based on a model range of containers for different types of fuel – from classic nuclear power plants to power units with small modular reactors (SMRs). The design of the container involves the use of a specialized ALLOBOR-5 boron-aluminum alloy, developed by BRESSON POWER together with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. ALLOBOR-5 will form the basis for the design of the inner basket of the container. The project includes the study of various methods for the production of the structure of the inner basket made of ALLOBOR-5 alloy. Methods for the production of rolled sheets, or 3D printing of the basket itself or its parts are considered. In addition to the leading scientific and technical organizations of Ukraine and the Czech Republic, the Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague will take part in the project, in terms of developing robotic manipulation equipment.

Solving the problems of transforming the facility “Shelter into an environmentally safe system, decommissioning of the power units of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, safe operation of spent nuclear fuel storage facilities, as well as the safe operation of other radiation hazardous facilities located in the exclusion zone, requires systematic laboratory studies of the current characteristics of nuclear and radioactive materials and forecasting their state over time, as well as the characteristics of radioactive contamination of environmental objects.

As a result of hostilities and the temporary occupation of the city of Chornobyl by russian troops, the infrastructure of the exclusion zone, in particular the premises and equipment of some laboratories, was seriously damaged and damaged, which makes their further use impossible.

The restoration of laboratories in existing buildings that were seriously damaged is not justified, since this requires significant material and financial costs. Therefore, it is proposed to carry out the reconstruction of other buildings that have not received damage and are in satisfactory technical condition. The reconstruction of these buildings provides for changing their functional purpose and equipping them with the latest laboratory equipment, which requires lower costs compared to new construction.

Now a conceptual design has been developed, which demonstrates the possibility of placing radiochemical laboratories of classes 1, 2, and 3 in existing buildings in compliance with the requirements of sanitary legislation. It is planned to create a laboratory for radiation materials science in the 1st and 2nd classes of work and a laboratory for radiation monitoring in the 2nd and 3rd classes of work. The laboratory of radiation materials science for working with highly active samples of nuclear fuel and lava-like fuel-containing materials of the destroyed ChNPP Unit 4 is designed to solve the following tasks:

• study of physical and chemical properties;
• study of microstructure and phase composition;
• simulation of degradation of the microstructure and physical and mechanical properties;
• predicting behavior in the near and long term;
• development of methodological and technological approaches to solid-phase conditioning of nuclear materials to ensure long-term storage and/or their future disposal as high-level radioactive waste.

The radiation monitoring laboratory is designed to solve the following tasks:

• carrying out radiochemical analyses for the content of alpha-, beta-, and gamma-emitting nuclides in samples, radioactively contaminated man-made objects, wastewater, air, and soil;
• study of physical and chemical properties of liquid and solid radioactive waste, aerosol, and hot particles;
• study of the content of uranium, natural and man-made radionuclides in soils, bottom sediments, ground and surface waters, “hot” particles, and air;
• determination of physical and chemical forms of uranium and radionuclides presence in soils, bottom sediments, ground and surface waters, “hot” particles;
• study of the degree and rate of leaching of uranium and radionuclides from nuclear materials.

The creation in Ukraine of an international research institute with an experimental and applied base involves combining the efforts of scientific institutions in Europe to implement joint scientific and technological developments.

The main prerequisites for the creation of MRIA are the following:

• The need for consolidated international scientific and technical cooperation in the field of safety and efficiency of the use of the peaceful atom, to ensure the socio-economic and energy stability of the world community.
• The need to find new solutions in the field of carbon-free energy sources, in particular, taking into account future technologies that go beyond classical nuclear energy;
• The need for training and retraining of specialized scientific, technical, and production personnel, taking into account the high technological requirements in the field of nuclear energy in the context of reformatting the European energy system in the transition to a carbon-free economy;
• The existence of geopolitical risks in technology transfer and the circulation of knowledge flows in the context of the advent of the post-russian economic era, given the critical need to reposition certain international S&T organizations that have long been under russian influence;

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