Leningrad NPP background
Part of:
Russian nuclear power reactors
|
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.
Bellona
[
28.07.2008
]
Illegal dirt dumping adds to ecological woes at site of second Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant
ST. PETERSBURG – Hundreds of thousands of tons of dirt from the construction site of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant 2 are being dumped in the wrong place in the Lomonosov and Sosnovy Bor districts of the Leningrad Region, where the plant and its older brother, the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, are located.
Bellona
[
17.06.2008
]
Bellona to conduct public environmental impact study relative to construction of second Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant
ST. PETERSBURG-The administration of the town of Sosnovy Bor - which hosts not only the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, but is the projected site for a second nuclear power plant - has granted Bellona permission to conduct an independent environmental evaluation of the engineering materials submitted for licensing the new plant.
Bellona
[
30.05.2008
]
Bellona demands the public’s opinion on the city’s second nuclear power plant be heard
ST. PETERSBURG - Bellona has filed a petition in court against the Smolnenskoye Municipalityfor its refusal to grant the environmental agency the right to register a public environmental impact study of the second Leningrad nuclear power plant, which has received the green light from the government.