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.

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[ 26.01.2011 ]
Reactor glitches become regular occurrence in Russia’s Northwest
MOSCOW – January 2011 has so far seen five unplanned reactor outages at Leningrad, Kalinin, and Kola Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs): Obsolete and worn-out reactors are failing to cope with their main function – stable production of power at baseload levels. The aging reactors’ safety is becoming a worry: Could the unscheduled disconnects be precursor events to more serious accidents?
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[ 07.01.2011 ]
Court halts construction of second line of Leningrad NPP
A local court in Sosnovy Bor – a town in Russia’s Leningrad Region which is home to Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LAES) – ruled last December 29 to sustain prosecutors’ motion to order a 40-day halt on construction works at the site of the second line of the power plant, LAES-2. Prosecutors had argued the contractor company failed to remove fire safety and sanitary violations discovered at the site as early as last summer.
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[ 29.11.2010 ]
Sosnovy Bor residents send appeal to Putin over construction of Leningrad NPP 2
ST. PETERSBURG – Residents of Sosnovy Bor, the home town to the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant and the site where the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant 2 is under construction, have issued an appeal to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sayng that the city is seeing “a growth of nuclear technology that is fostering the protest of civil society as a result of the actions of [Russian state nuclear corporation] Rosatom.”
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