SOSNY
Research and Development Company
(SOSNY R&D Company)
Design Engineering Department

Aleksandr Samsonov
Head

Vladimir Grishin
Deputy Head
The Company's Design Engineering Department has a total of 47 engineers and is responsible for the following:
- development of design documentation consistent with input requirements, technical specifications, the Unified System of Design Documentation, and the industry's norms and standards,
- design feasibility studies,
- design analysis by generally accepted methods,
- acquisition of information and customer feedback on the reliability of the equipment developed,
- analysis of the product for the correctness of engineering solutions, performance, appropriateness of the materials selected, and preparation of improvement proposals,
- patent research and determination of the engineering level of the equipment designed,
- the developer's supervision of the fabrication process, participation in mounting, adjustment, testing, start-up activities at the operating site, the customer's personnel training in the equipment operation.
The experts of the Design Engineering Department have participated in more than 100 projects to develop:
- equipment for pre-shipment handling of the spent fuel to include the damaged one (grapples, tilters, transfer casks, canisters, working platforms, etc.),
- radioactive material transport packagings, including those for air shipments,
- a variety of SNF reprocessing equipment,
- equipment for research shielded cells,
- shielded glove boxes with in-box process equipment,
- power manipulators,
- shielded cells,
- automated fuel assembling line,
- facilities for pressing, carbothermal synthesis, and sintering of nitride fuel pellets,
- series production (shut-off valves, valve shielding units, pumps, etc.)
and others.
The staff operates modern office automation and licensed software (Kompas 3D, SolidWorks) as work tools.