Nuclear Power Plants in Russia

Bilbino Location: Magadan Operator: Rosenergoatom Configuration: 4 X 12 MW GBWR Operation: 1973 Reactor supplier: ?? T/G supplier: Skoda, Electrosila Quick facts: Bilbino is a combined heat and power station with a unique graphite-moderated, natural circulation reactor design generating 12 MW of electricity and 20 MW of heat. Photograph courtesy of Energoatom Posted 27 Jan 2005	Beloyarsk-3 Location: Sverdlovsk Operator: Rosenergoatom Configuration: 1 X 600 MW FBR Operation: 1981 Reactor supplier: Mintyazhmash T/G supplier: LMZ Quick facts: The BN-600 reactor of Beloyarsk-3 is one of the few operating fast breeder reactors in the world and the largest still in operation. Units 1&2 were small RBMK units closed in 1981 and 1989, respectively. Photograph courtesy of Energoatom Posted 27 Jan 2005	Gorky Location: Nizhny Novgorod Operator: Minatom Configuration: 500 MW heat only Operation: n/a (never completed) Reactor supplier: OKB T/G supplier: n/a Quick facts: This and a sister plant in Voronezh were unique, large-scale  nuclear fueled district heating plants in the Soviet Union. Each had twin reactors and neither was completed. In 1989, an IAEA team completed a design review of the Gorky plant, the first foreign group to visit the closed city. After an expenditure of about $1bn, the Gorky project was abandoned following the Chernobyl accident. Parts of the site have subsequently been used for various commercial purposes. Photograph by Lzhl (wikimedia) Posted 30 Aug 2008
Kalinin Location: Tver Operator: Rosenergoatom Configuration: 3 X 1,000 MW PWR Operation: 1988-2004 Reactor supplier: Mintyazhmash T/G supplier: Kharkov, LMZ Quick facts: Kalinin-3 is Russia's newest nuclear unit and went into trial operation in Dec 2004. Kalinin-4 is under construction for service in 2011. Photograph courtesy of Energoatom Posted 27 Jan 2005	Kola Location: Murmansk Operator: Rosenergoatom Configuration: 4 X 411 MW PWR Operation: 1973-1984 Reactor supplier: Mintyazhmash T/G supplier: Kharkov Photograph courtesy of Kola NPP Posted 8 May 2004	Novovoronezh Location: Voronezh Operator: Rosenergoatom Configuration: 1 X 210 MW, 1 X 365 MW, 2 X 440 MW, 1 X 1,000 MW PWR Operation: 2001 Reactor supplier: Mintyazhmash T/G supplier: Kharkov Quick facts: The first VVER reactor unit was built at this site as well as the first 1,000-MW VVER. Photograph courtesy of Rosenergoatom Posted 26 Sep 2004
Smolensk Location: Smolensk Operator: Energoatom Configuration: 3 X 1,000 MW RBMK Operation: 1982-1989 Reactor supplier: Mintyazhmash T/G supplier: Kharkov, Electrosila Photograph courtesy of Rosenergoatom Posted 12 May 2001	Volgodonsk-1 Location: Rostov Operator: Rosenergoatom Configuration: 1 X 1,031 MW PWR Operation: 2001 Reactor supplier: Mintyazhmash T/G supplier: Kharkov, Electrosila EPC: Rosenergatom, Atomprojekt Photograph courtesy of Rosenergoatom Posted 12 May 2001	Volgodonsk-2 Location: Rostov Operator: Rosenergoatom Configuration: 1 X 1,000 MW PWR Operation: 2009 Reactor supplier: Mintyazhmash T/G supplier: Kharkov, Electrosila EPC: NIIAEP Quick facts: This unit is scheduled to complete in Dec 2009. Two additional 1,200-MW units are planned for service around 2015. Photograph courtesy of Rosenergoatom Posted 1 Sep 2008

Abbreviations:  aFBR = fast breeder reactor, PWR = pressurized-water reactor, LMZ = Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod, RBMK = graphite-moderated light-water reactor, T/G = turbine generator

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 09/01/08

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