OKB Gidropress (russian: ОКБ Гидропресс) is a

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

state construction office which works on the design, analysis, development, and production of

nuclear power plant A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a electric generator, generato ...

reactors, most notably the

VVER The water-water energetic reactor (WWER), or VVER (from russian: водо-водяной энергетический реактор; transliterates as ; ''water-water power reactor'') is a series of pressurized water reactor designs originally de ...

range. OKB stands for experimental design bureau (опытно-конструкторское бюро, opytno-konstruktorskoe bjuro).

History

The company was established by the decree of Council of People's Commissars of the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

on January 28, 1946 by the order of the People’s Commissar of the USSR heavy engineering on February 1, 1946.

Reactors

A list of some reactors under her flagship or participation: #

and its variants # VKT-12
SVBR-10SVBR-100Angstrem
#

VT-1 reactor The VT-1 reactor was the nuclear fission reactor used in a pair to power the as part of the Soviet Navy's Project 645 Кит-ЖМТ. It is a liquid metal cooled reactor (LMR), using highly enriched uranium-235 fuel to produce 73 MW of power. ...

BM-40A reactor The BM-40A reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used to power four of the seven boats of the Soviet Navy's Project 705 Лира (Lira or Alfa in NATO designation) fourth generation submarines. It is a liquid metal cooled reactor (LMR), using h ...

# BREST-OD-300 #

BN-800 reactor The BN-800 reactor (Russian: реактор БН–800) is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The reactor is designed to generate 880 MW of electrical po ...

BN-1200 reactor The BN-1200 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor project, under development by OKBM Afrikantov in Zarechny, Russia. The BN-1200 is based on the earlier BN-600 and especially BN-800, with which it shares a number of features. The react ...

References

External links

OKB Gidropress home page
(english) Nuclear technology companies of Russia Technology companies established in 1946 Companies of the Soviet Union Rosatom 1946 establishments in the Soviet Union Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union Companies based in Moscow Oblast Design bureaus {{Russia-company-stub