Background: Leningrad NPP

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.
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS
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Anna Kireeva/Bellona

[ 03.11.2008 ]
‘Nuclear monsters’ protest groundbreaking of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant 2
ST. PETERSBURG – “Nuclear monsters” laid a faux foundation for the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant 2 (LNPP 2) during a Bellona protest in central St. Petersburg a week after the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone for the actual plant’s first reactor in the town of Sosnovy Bor, 80 kilometres west of St. Petersburg, where the actual nuclear station will be built.
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City Administration of St. Petersburg

[ 03.10.2008 ]
Bellona lawsuit reveals legislative holes that prevent environmental impact studies in St. Petersburg and Moscow
ST. PETERSBURG - Bellona’s ongoing lawsuit against the Smolninsky Municipal District of St. Petersburg has revealed outrageous gaps in Russia legislation that prevents conducting public environmental impact studies of any industrial scale installation in the country’s two biggest cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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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.

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