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The Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant is situated in the closed town of Sosnovy Bor, 80 kilometres west of St. Petersburg. The plant consists of four graphite-moderated reactors of the RBMK-1000 type (Chernobyl-type). The reactors were put in operation between 1974 and 1981. The oldest reactor received a 15 year prolongation its engineered life span in 2004.
ST. PETERSBURG – The St. Petersburg Arbitration Court refused to review a dispute between Bellona’s St. Petersburg offices and the administration of the Smolninskoye District, which had refused Bellona the right to review engineering documents relative to the construction of a second Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant.
St Petersburg department of the Russian National Reserve Bank issued a $1.7m credit for the St Petersburg institute Atomenergoproekt, reported the banks website.
Rostekhnadzor, Russian State licencing company, is preparing to prolong the service time of the second reactor unit at the Leningrad NPP, the head of nuclear sites safety department of Rostekhnadzor Valery Bezzubtsev said to Interfax.