Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant
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The nuclear power plant Zaporozhye (Ukrainian Запорізька атомна електростанція, Russian Запорожская атомная электростанция ) is right on the river Dnieper, near the town Enerhodar in southeastern Ukraine and is the most powerful nuclear power plant in Europe. It is about 50 kilometers from the city Zaporozhye. Right next to the nuclear power plant is the conventional power plant Zaporizhia.
Performance
The nuclear power plant has a total of six blocks of type WWER-1000/320. These have an electrical output of 1,000 MW and a thermal capacity of 3,200 megawatts. The total thermal output of the plant by almost 20 gigawatts requires enormous quantities of cooling water, which was the river Dnieper, which specially widened at this point, are removed. The light water reactors have a total electrical output of 6,000 MW gross ( 5,700 MW net) thereby forming composite reckoned the most powerful nuclear power plant in Europe.
History
With the construction of the first reactor was started in 1980. With the commissioning of the first reactor block on 10 December 1984 of the first reactor of the Russian Standard series was taken WWER-1000/320 in operation. In the years 1981, 1982 and 1983, the construction of the blocks two to four followed. These were, respectively, after a construction period of about four years and eight months in operation. The block 5 was built from 1985 to 1989. The start of construction of the sixth block was on 1 June 1986. He eventually went to about nine years of construction on 19 October 1995 in operation.
The nuclear power plant has supplied almost the whole south of Ukraine and is essential due to the elimination of all four units of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for energy supply in Ukraine.
Security
Despite the relatively modern type of reactor incidents were reported from the nuclear power plant repeated. In April 1993, some parts of the plant by water which had leaked from the primary circuit, highly radioactive contaminated. Due to financial difficulties from 1994 to 1997 only two million U.S. dollars have been invested over the years.
The Forschungszentrum Dresden -Rossendorf worked to improve the safety standards of the monitoring systems of the power stations in Ukraine. 1992 started the first investigations of the research center to improve safety. In 1995, the first monitoring system went in the 5th block into trial operation. Today, all six reactors are equipped with them.
Data of the reactor units
The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has six blocks: