Kursk Nuclear Power Plant

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Active reactors ( gross ):

Reactors under construction ( gross ):

The Kursk nuclear power plant ( [ listen? / I] russian Курская АЭС ) is located about 35 kilometers west of the city of Kursk in western Russia, in Kurchatov on the banks of the Sejm. In recent years, the nuclear power plant has fed an average of 23 billion kilowatt hours into the public power grid of the Kursk Oblast and 19 other regions. The owner and operator of the nuclear power plant is the state enterprise RosEnergoAtom.

History

The construction of the first nuclear reactor was started on 1 June 1972. The second reactor block was followed on 1 January 1973. On 19 December 1976, the first and on 28 January 1979, the second reactor block was put into operation. In the years 1978 and 1981 has started with the construction of the reactor units three and four, which went into operation on 17 October 1983 to 2 December 1985. With the construction of reactor block five was started on 1 December 1985 and it should be completed by 31 December 2010. Current plans envisage a completion of the reactor block, although the reactor design incorporates large safety deficiencies. The block 5 is the third generation of RBMK reactors and is completed already to 70%. A sixth reactor block was also under construction and should be built from 1986 to 2011. The construction was discontinued after the Chernobyl disaster.

On 26 May 2008, the Kühlsee of the blocks has been completed five and six. This Kurchatov lake called Lake 2 will now be filled.

The five reactor units are RBMK. The net output of the five reactors is at 925 megawatts ( MW), the gross output of 1,000 MW. The thermal power is 3200 MW. With a total installed capacity of 4000 MW nuclear power plant is one of the largest in Russia and worldwide.

The RBMK -1000 in block five is the physical prototype of MKER.

Security

The first -built blocks Kursk Kursk 1 and 2 belong to the first generation of nuclear reactors. The others belong to the second generation. The safety systems and auxiliary equipment at blocks from the second generation RBMK -1000 are more extensive designed and improved. All reactors were designed for a term of 30 years. In 2000, the approval of the blocks 1 and 2 was increased by a further 15 years. The upgrade of Block 3 and 4 should be started between 2008/ 09, according to Rosatom. Block 3 is already in armament and is outdated.

Kursk Nuclear Power Plant II

The nuclear power station Kursk II is the successor of the current power plant and nuclear power plant will be built on the same site. Planned are four reactors of type WWER-1300/510 in design of AES - 2006. The net output of one block should be 1170 megawatts gross capacity 1255 MW. When the construction will begin is still unclear, but the commissioning of the first two reactors is planned for 2019.

Data of the reactor units

The Kursk nuclear power plant has four active blocks, one under construction block, a warped block and a block in the planning stage: