{"id":232273,"date":"2026-02-28T05:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/russia-forges-nuclear-steel-to-brave-1112f-for-next-gen-reactors"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:13:40","slug":"russia-forges-nuclear-steel-to-brave-1112f-for-next-gen-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/russia-forges-nuclear-steel-to-brave-1112f-for-next-gen-reactors","title":{"rendered":"Russia forges nuclear steel to brave 1112\u00b0F for next-gen reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-forges-nuclear-steel-to-brave-1112f-for-next-gen-reactors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It could solve the corrosion and thermal challenges of lead-cooled reactors.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The development of this steel was conducted under the \u201cBreakthrough\u201d (Proryv) project, which focuses on the implementation of a closed nuclear fuel cycle using fast neutron reactors.<\/p>\n<p>The new steel provides corrosion resistance and thermal stability at temperatures up to 600\u00b0C (1,112\u00b0F).<\/p>\n<p>According to Sergei Logashov, Director of the Institute of Materials Science at CNIITMASH, the material was designed using computer modeling and data from heavy liquid metal coolant systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could solve the corrosion and thermal challenges of lead-cooled reactors. The development of this steel was conducted under the \u201cBreakthrough\u201d (Proryv) project, which focuses on the implementation of a closed nuclear fuel cycle using fast neutron reactors. The new steel provides corrosion resistance and thermal stability at temperatures up to 600\u00b0C (1,112\u00b0F). According to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}