- Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Zarechny ( _ru. Заре́чный) is a town in
Sverdlovsk Oblast ,Russia , located on thePyshma River east ofYekaterinburg at coord|56.8133|N|61.3333|E. Population: 27,914 (2002 Census); 27,675 (1989 Census).Urban-type settlement status since 1957; town status since 1992.Zarechny is set in a forested region, and also has the Beloyarsk nuclear power station [http://www.rosatom.ru/en/press-releases/11358_12.08.2008] [http://www-frdb.iaea.org/fulltext/01_generalInformation.pdf] [http://www.wano.org.uk/WANO_Documents/Inside_WANO/Vol12No3/Vol12No3_En.pdf] . A picture of the site can be found here [http://www.wano.org.uk/WANO_Documents/Inside_WANO/Vol12No3/Vol12No3_En.pdf] The site a 600 MW sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor [http://www-frdb.iaea.org/fulltext/01_generalInformation.pdf] . There are plans for an 800MW reactor [http://www.rosatom.ru/en/press-releases/11292_05.08.2008] [http://www-frdb.iaea.org/fulltext/01_generalInformation.pdf] , and there are two older reactors that have been decommisioned. There is also a 15 MW reactor used for research, and is involved in many international collaborations [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VB2-404H2RX-9&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=958efd12cd50ee77c68e83e2e81ac909] [http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=505693] [http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1742-6596/39/1/070/jpconf6_39_070.pdf?request-id=f8241629-35b3-4d0a-99c6-6aca848d6d3e] [http://axpd24.pd.infn.it/conference2005/talks/Gavrin.pdf] [http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0512041v1] [http://www.rus-hitech.com/technologies.php?base=6]
The power station is also connected to a number of cultural events [http://www.rosenergoatom.ru/eng/press/news/article/?article-id=8A2E9F16-7078-447D-99D3-9066C312A707] , and hosted a folk festival in 2008 [http://kunpp.rosenergoatom.ru/eng/press/news/article/?article-id=6D2BAFAD-D487-4742-BFC7-2710A69F958B] [http://www.rosatom.ru/en/press-releases/11358_12.08.2008] . A Zarechny womanTatiana Vdovina [http://www.nuclear.ru/eng/press/other_news/2109124/] also came third in the Miss Atom 2008 [http://missatom.nuclear.ru/eng/] beauty contest.
Zarechny [http://zarinfo.ru/] is the home of the martial arts club "Desantnik" [http://desantnic.ru/] , which is based opposite the memorial to soldiers fallen in modern wars.
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