On June 27-29, 2011 a delegation of representatives of IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) came to Beloyarsk NPP with a working visit.

The aim of the foreign specialists’ visit was to get acquainted with the BN-600 reactor, which was an archetype of the new BN-800 reactor being under construction.

According to the Russian-American agreement of 2000 with the amendment of 2010, the parties obliged to utilize 34 tones of weapon plutonium excesses each. The BN-800 reactor is exactly planned to be involved into the Russian part of the program.

In the course of the visit the members of IAEA delegation attended the operating BN-600 power unit and the construction site of BN-800. At the work meetings they were presented the necessary information of BN-600 reactor operation, the technological scheme of nuclear fuel management, the system of nuclear fuel account and control and the project peculiarities of the appropriate systems of BN-800.

Since IAEA accepted the responsibility of control fulfillment of the international agreement on plutonium utilization, the experts thoroughly analyzed the opportunities of organization and realization of instrumental monitoring at BN-600.