Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant
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The nuclear power plant Bilibino ( [ listen? / I] russian Билибинская АЭС, abbreviation БАЭС, BAES ) is near the Russian city of Bilibino in the Autonomous District of the Chukchi in northeastern Siberia. In recent years, the nuclear power plant has fed an average of 132 million kilowatt-hours into the public power grid of the Magadan Oblast. In addition, heat is transferred to the city Bilibino. The nuclear power plant was the first and only built in the Arctic Circle in an area of permafrost to provide energy for the exploitation of the gold mines in the area. The area around Bilibino is cut off from the road and rail network, also lacks locally to conventional energy sources. Therefore, the construction of a small nuclear power plant was by far the cheapest way to provide the necessary energy. Owner and operator of a nuclear power plant is the state enterprise RosEnergoAtom.
History
In 1965 it was decided to build the nuclear power plant Bilibino; The construction began on 11 December 1966. With the construction of nuclear reactors was started January 1, 1970. After more than four years of construction, the first reactor block on December 11, 1973, for the first time critical. Blocks 2 and 3 followed on December 7, 1974 and 6 December 1975. The last block was 4 on December 12, 1976 for the first time critical. The reactors were designed for a service life of 30 years. The first blocks have reached this maturity and should actually be switched off. For block 1, a term extension of five years was in 2004, for Unit 2 in 2005, approved. Also for the Units 3 and 4 should be allowed a longer operating time than originally planned. Through modernization measures the operating time of the nuclear power plant is to be extended by up to 15 years. A replacement of the four reactors is planned by 2015-20.
Even in 2003, the blocks E, F and G had been planned; each with a net capacity of 31 MW. Whether the plans were terminated, is not known.
Performance
The four small reactor blocks are type reactors EGP - sixth The net output of the four reactors located at each 11 megawatts ( MW), the gross output at 12 MW. The thermal power is 62 MW. With a total installed capacity of 48 MW nuclear power plant is the smallest in-service nuclear power plant in Russia and worldwide.
EGP -6 ( ЭГП -6) is a reactor with individual channels for the water vapor. It is ( net) provided electricity and heat for external loads in addition to 11 MWe. As moderator, graphite is used. The reactors are small, older types of reactors similar to the RBMK reactors of the first generation of nuclear reactors.
Security
On 10 July 1991, the heaviest incident occurred in this nuclear power plant. These were a serious incident, the INES level 3
An accident of the INES level 2 occurred in 1998.
Data of the reactor units
The nuclear power plant Bilibino has four blocks: