Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant
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The Smolensk nuclear power plant ( [ listen? / I] russian Смоленская АЭС, abbreviation САЭС, SAES ) is located about three kilometers from the Russian city of Smolensk Oblast Desnogorsk in the river Desna. Due to the high cooling water requirements of RBMK and high radioactive emissions during normal operation, an artificial lake of 42 square kilometers was created. The nuclear power plant is named after the 153 km north- west in the city of Smolensk. In recent years, the nuclear power plant has fed an average of 18 billion kilowatt hours per year in the public power grid. 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 October 1975. The second reactor block was followed on 1 June 1976. September 30, 1983, the first and on 5 July 1985, the second reactor block was put into operation. In May 1984, and October 1984, started the construction of the reactor units three and four. Block 3 was only on 12 October 1990. Thus, the reactor 3 is the latest Smolensk RBMK in Russia or the former Soviet Union. Due to the Chernobyl disaster, the construction of the 4th block in the summer of 1986 was stopped. The second double block of the nuclear power plant thus remained unfinished. The site was not conserved in contrast to the Kursk nuclear power plant, so that a further construction is not possible.
The net output of the three reactors is at 925 megawatts ( MW), the gross output at 1,000 MW. The thermal power is 3200 MW.
By the year 2014, a complex is to be built for processing radioactive waste on the site of the Smolensk nuclear power plant. The facility is located since 2002 in the framework of the TACIS program under construction. Will be built the plant, among others, Areva, All Trade, BIS and Fontijnes Grotnes. By 2009, the delivery of the components to be completed. The EU Commission in 2008 will examine and license the components.
Security
The first -built blocks Smolensk Smolensk 1 and 2 belong to the second generation of RBMK. The third part of the third generation RBMK.
On September 19, 1994, it was reported that the control mechanism of the control rods did not work in block 1.
On 19 December 2005, only three days after the explosion of the nuclear power plant furnaces in Leningrad, a transformer exploded at one of the distribution centers of the Smolensk nuclear power plant, which led to a subsequent fire. After a short time but this was under control.
Smolensk nuclear power plant II
The Smolensk nuclear power plant II is the successor power plant at this location are. Planned are four reactors of type WWER-1200/491 in design of AES - 2006. When the construction is scheduled to begin, is not yet certain.
Data of the reactor units
The Smolensk nuclear power plant has three blocks: