Nuclear power in Russia

The list of nuclear facilities in Russia includes all commercial power reactors, nuclear power plants, research reactors and other nuclear facilities and enrichment facilities, which are currently in operation or under construction that are currently switched off or has already been decommissioned or their design / construction was finally abandoned.

The Soviet Union was the first country in the world that took a commercial nuclear power plant in operation in 1954.

All the Russian nuclear power plants are owned by the state company Rosatom and operated by state-owned enterprises also RosEnergoAtom. The nuclear power plants cover about 18% of the electricity needs of the country. Add to Russia's nuclear power plants are mainly RBMK or VVER used.

In the nuclear power plant Bilibino are currently under the smallest in operation worldwide reactors also provide district heating. Russia's largest nuclear power plant is the nuclear power plant Balakowo.

In order to quickly produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants were built with plutonium reactors during the Cold War four. As nuclear power generation was possible was a reactor to produce both electricity and can produce plutonium developed. Result was the RBMK series, which still maintains a majority of the country's power. During the time the reactors MKER technique have been upgraded. The MKER is therefore the successor of the RBMK.

Since April 2007, Russia relies on a new type of electricity from nuclear energy. The nuclear power station Akademik Lomonosov will be the world's first floating nuclear power plant. Another is planned. The power plants are to be used in hard to reach areas where there are problems with the power supply.

Russia has a very balanced fuel cycle. For some time experimenting with new fuel element types for VVER. It is planned to reprocess the spent fuel from the RBMK and to use them as fuel for VVER. These have up to 2.5% higher efficiency than conventional WWER fuel. The fuel is currently experimentally in the reactors of the Kalinin nuclear power plant in operation. The spent fuel can in turn be further processed into MOX fuel, it will be used since the beginning of 2008 the nuclear power plant Beloyarskaya.

2.1 Performance 2.1.1 Nuclear Power Plants
2.1.2 core heating plants

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Nuclear power plants

Under the grouping nuclear power plants fall all power reactors and prototype systems that are used for commercial power generation. In Russia, a total of 33 nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 25,242 MW gross operating. Nine reactors with a capacity of 9,024 MW gross are currently under construction. Twelve reactors with a capacity of 919 MW gross have already been decommissioned. The nuclear power plant in Obninsk was the first nuclear power plant in the country and worldwide. The oldest still in operation is the nuclear power plant Novovoronesh.

Performance

This list is sorted in alphabetical order.

Pictures

Kalinin nuclear power plant

Kola nuclear power plant 3 and 4

Repair in the Kola nuclear power plant 1

Turbine Hall 2 of Kola 3 and 4

Site of the Leningrad nuclear power plant from the air

Nuclear power plant Novovoronesh

Units 1 and 2 nuclear power plant Novovoronesh

Units 3 and 4 at the nuclear power plant Novovoronesh

Block 5 in the nuclear power plant Novovoronesh

Entrance of the nuclear power plant Novovoronesh

Nuclear power plant Novovoronesh II

Board in front of the construction site of the nuclear power plant Novovoronesh II

Obninsk nuclear power plant from the south

Smolensk nuclear power plant

Nuclear power plants and nuclear heating plants operating without recording

Under the grouping of nuclear power plants and nuclear heating plants without operating recording includes all power reactors and prototype systems that should be used for commercial electricity or heat generation, but have not yet been completed, and their planning and construction have been permanently discontinued, and all power reactors that are not yet under construction but are firmly planned. Marked in green power plants are being planned, in power plants, which are highlighted in yellow, the construction was stopped and marked in blue power plants, the construction and the plans were finally discontinued.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the majority of the projects were canceled or a construction freeze imposed. Many facilities are now again in discussion in the course of the Russian nuclear program project 2007-2015.

Performance

Nuclear power plants

This list is sorted in alphabetical order.

Nuclear heating plants

This list is sorted in alphabetical order.

Pictures

Core heating Gorky

Core heating Voronezh

Research reactors

Under the grouping research reactor fall nuclear reactors that do not serve the power generation, but mainly for research purposes ( nuclear and material- technical studies, isotope production for medicine and technology ) can be used. Countries Russia has the most research reactors in operation.

Performance

This list is sorted in alphabetical order.

Pictures

Institute building of the Kurchatov Institute

Nuclear reactors in other nuclear facilities

Under the grouping other nuclear installations covered all chemical combines and production, in which there are nuclear reactors.

Reprocessing plants

Here Russian reprocessing plants are listed.

Enrichment plants

Here Russian uranium enrichment plants are listed.

Explanations

A RBMK -1000 or RBMK -1500 is a version of a water-cooled graphite-moderated pressure tube reactor type, see RBMK.
A VVER -210, VVER -365, VVER -440 / x, VVER -1000 / x, VVER -1160 / x or VVER -1200 / x is a version of a water-cooled water-moderated light water reactor type VVER see.

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