Russian nuclear power reactors

Part of: Nuclear Russia

In Russia today there are 10 nuclear power plants with a total of 31 operating reactors. In 2004 these reactors produced some 21.740 MWe. Seven of the reactors have recently been granted a prolonged enginnered life span of 15 years. This means that intended engineered life spans on aged reactors can increase from their 30 year intended term of service to 45 years.

ARTICLES
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[ 01.03.2010 ]
Ceremonial first stone laid for Baltic Nuclear Power Plant in Kaliningrad
NEW YORK – Despite resounding local and international disapproval, and deficits that have put Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom on a helter-skelter search for foreign investors, Russian officials laid the first symbolic stone in the building of the Baltic Nuclear Power Plant in Kaliningrad.
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[ 05.01.2010 ]
Russia joint venture releases possibly crackpot plan to build small lead cooled fast reactors for remote areas
NEW YORK – A new joint venture between Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom and En+, another Russian energy giant and the majority shareholder of RUSAL, the world's largest aluminium and alumina producer is aiming to commercialise small lead cooled reactors, an industry publication reported.
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[ 02.09.2009 ]
Unneeded by Russia, the Baltic NPP seems slates to become an expensive toy for Rosatom energy export plan
MOSCOW – Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom continues to push for the new Kaliningrad power-generating site despite the absence of any guaranteed demand for its energy. As a recent report shows, the industry plans to spend $13 billion on the most expensive – and most unneeded – nuclear power plant in the country’s history, warns Bellona’s regular contributor and co-chairman of the ecological group Ecodefense, Vladimir Slivyak, in this comment.
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NEWS
[ 09.06.2009 ]
AtomEnergoProekt snags Volgodonsk contract

Nizhniy Novgorod AtomEnergoProekt has won the tender as principal contractor for the construction of the third and fourth reactors at the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant in Russia. The company has also completed assembling the initial reactor for Russia's first floating nuclear power plant.

[ 20.02.2009 ]
Leningrad NPP’s chief engineer fired after malfunctions

The Leningrad NPP’s chief engineer Oleg Chernikov was fired from the top position after the commission from the Russian Energoatom concern found the reasons for the plant’s malfunctions in January.

[ 12.02.2009 ]
Future Nizhny Novgorod NPP to supply energy to neighbouring regions

Supporters of the proposed Nizhny Novgorod NPP (about 300 km east from Moscow) believe the region could sell the energy to the neighbouring regions.

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BLOGS
Posted 02.02.2009 in Vladimir Slivyak's blog by Vladimir Slivyak

Global economic slump may lay bare nuclear safety and proliferation problems

Comments to the yearly report by the Russian industrial safety oversight agency Rostekhnadzor and ruminations on whether there is any logic to be found in the state nuclear corporation Rosatom’s actions.

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