Balakovo NPP
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The Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant is situated by the river Volga, 900 kilometers south of Moscow. There are four 3rd generation pressurized water reactors of the VVER-1000 type at the plant. The first reactor was put in operation in 1986, and the last in 1993.
fixing guilt for the panic - that was spread in the wake of a mishap in November - on one person.
Balakovo nuclear power plant in the South of Russia was shut down because of an unspecified safety problem, the Associated Press reported on January 30 quoting Russian emergency officials.
The cost of launching the second phase of Balakovo NPP is estimated at about 50 billion rubles ($1,752m) a source in Rosenergoatom told Interfax.
The Russian State Tax Service has frozen the assets of Balakovo nuclear power plant. The plant faces a possible court bankruptcy proceeding. At the same time, Minatom calls for criminal investigation into alleged corruption at Rosenergoatom, the company that runs all Russia's nuclear power plants.
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