1. Traditional copper production through mining and smelting

2. Geographical Centers and Infrastructure

3. Refining and External Cooperation

Copper Cable

Why not "atomic transmutation"?

The idea of ​​producing copper through targeted nuclear reactions (e.g., through neutron bombardment or fast reactors) is theoretically possible in the field of nuclear physics – but:

Conclusion

Russia produces copper classically through mining, processing, smelting, and refining, not through any nuclear alchemy.
Brjansk is not known as the center of any nuclear copper factory – its activities are concentrated in well-known regions such as Chelyabinsk, the Urals, Chukotka, etc.
Nuclear reactors like the BN-800 are used for energy generation and waste recycling – not for metal production.

If you like, I can also explain to you how such a nuclear transmutation reactor works – However, copper isn't a by-product ;-) :D :p

So you're seriously asking whether Russia is operating some kind of "atomic copper production" – So, are they extracting copper through nuclear transmutation in nuclear reactors, and is that perhaps taking place in Bryansk? In short: No, they are not. It's conventional mining and refining processes, not nuclear transmutation alchemy.

What Russia is actually doing

03.09.2025