Russia currently operates 10 nuclear power plants with a total of 31 reactors producing 143 TWh of power that cover some 15 percent of the country’s electricity needs (about 3 percent in the energy balance). Half of the country’s reactors are considered high-risk by international experts. Eight of Russia’s 10 nuclear power plants are in the European part of Russia, East of the Ural. Two others are east of the Urals―one in Far Eastern Siberia. Typically, Russian nuclear power plants run either VVER type reactors (15) or graphite moderated RBMK reactors (11) of the fatally-flawed Chernobyl-type. Other reactor types include the EPR-6, and the BN-60 fast neutron reactor. Civilian nuclear power plants in Russia are owned and operated by the state-owned Rosenergoatom company. Of special concern are the RBMK’s that are still in service, and those reactors that receive extensions of their engineered life span―a dangerous, and often illegally performed, process to squeeze more time out of reactors that should be decommissioned.