Kola NPP

Part of: Russian nuclear power reactors

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The Kola Nuclear Power Plant is situated in a central location close to the heavy industry on the Kola Peninsula, about 15 kilometres west of the city of Polyarnye Zory. There are four pressurized water reactors of the type VVER-440 at the plant, which where put in operation in 1973, 1975, 1982 and 1984. In 2003 and 2004 the two oldest reactors receive a 15-year prolongation of their engineered life spans.

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Thomas Nilsen

[ 04.02.2010 ]
Kola Nuclear Power Plant first hides, then downplays incident
An energy transformer exploded into bits and pieces at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant located on the Kola Peninsula, in Northwest Russia. The incident led to a 50% reduction of power output from two reactor units leaving onsite spent nuclear fuel storage without energy supply. The authorities at the plant neglected to report about the incident.
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Anna Kireeva/Bellona

[ 05.08.2009 ]
No round two for Kola NPP?
MURMANSK – A report presented by Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko at the International Forum Atomexpo-2009 in late May indicates none of the new reactors of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, earlier projected as part of Russia’s nuclear programme expansion plans, are any longer on the atomic corporation’s agenda.
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Photo: Thomas Nilsen

[ 03.08.2009 ]
Kola Nuclear Power Plant still a hotbed of raging controversy
MURMANSK – The Kola Nuclear Power Plant in Northern Russia keeps getting ill-obtained extensions on the long-expired operational life spans of its aged reactors. Yet Murmansk prosecutors – once supportive of environmentalists’ claims of the extensions’ illegality – seem to have dropped the ball on enforcing due diligence in the operation of the site.
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NEWS
[ 22.10.2008 ]
Russian nuclear oversight body to check federal regulations compliance at several nuke facilities

ST. PETERSBURG - Russia’s Federal Service for Environment, Technology and Nuclear Oversight (Rostekhnadzor) chief Nikolai Kutin confirmed a series of planned inspections to check observance of regulations governing spent nuclear fuel shipping at the Kola Peninsula Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), and the physical safety of nuclear material at the Smolenk NPP and the Mayak Chemical, the service’s press service said.

[ 24.09.2008 ]
Rosatom give green light to Kola NPP 2

Confirming long held suspicions, Russia’s state nuclear corporation has announced it will go ahead with building a new nuclear power plant on the Kola Peninsula, which will replace the capacities of the ageing Kola Nuclear Power Plant, news agencies reported.

[ 27.09.2007 ]
Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technical and Atomic Supervision prolongs operational licenses for Kola NPP units

Since 2001 Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technical and Atomic Supervision, or Rostekhnadzor, issued licenses to the Russian Federal Nuclear Agency for 11 nuclear units, reported Rostekhnadzor’s website.

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