Loviisa nuclear power plant
| Loviisa nuclear power plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 22 '20 " N , 26 ° 20' 50" E | |
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 Finland
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| Owner: | Fortum Power and Heat OY | |
| Operator: | Fortum Power and Heat OY | |
| Project start: | 1970 | |
| Commercial operation: | May 9, 1977 | |
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Active reactors (gross): |
2 (1062 MW) | |
| Energy fed in in 2018: | 7,791.71 GWh | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 289,780 GWh | |
| Was standing: | December 31, 2018 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
At the Loviisa nuclear power plant , near the town of Loviisa on the south-eastern coast of Finland , two VVER of Soviet design are in operation.
Block 1 and 2
The two VVER-440 with a net capacity of 488 MW each are in Loviisa and by the company Fortum Oy operated. In order to meet the Finnish safety regulations, a new version had to be specially developed, which is not used in Russia. These are the world's only completed reactors of the second VVER generation and the only ones of the VVER-440 type that have containment . This was supplied by the US company Westinghouse , the control technology comes from Siemens . Because of this unconventional east-west solution, the system was nicknamed "Eastinghouse".
Unit 1 became critical for the first time on January 21, 1977 , and Unit 2 followed on October 17, 1980. The reactors have been in commercial operation since 1977 and 1981, respectively. In 2007, the government issued an operating license for Unit 1 by 2027 and for Unit 2 by 2030 .
In 1993, an INES 2 incident occurred in Block 2 in the form of a double-ended break in a feedwater line , one of the main lines that feeds water to the steam generators .
Block 3
Loviisa was discussed as a construction site for the fifth Finnish reactor block, which is now being built on the site of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant .
additional
Connected is the Loviisa repository for low and medium level radioactive waste.
Data of the reactor blocks
The Loviisa nuclear power plant has two blocks :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | Construction line | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
Commercialization of essential operation |
switching off processing |
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| Loviisa-1 | Pressurized water reactor | WWER-440/311 | 507 MW | 531 MW | 05/01/1971 | 02/08/1977 | 05/09/1977 | (Planned for 2027) |
| Loviisa-2 | Pressurized water reactor | WWER-440/311 | 507 MW | 531 MW | 08/01/1972 | 04/11/1980 | 01/05/1981 | (Planned for 2030) |
See also
Web links
- Plague: Loviisa (Finland)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Loviisa Nuclear Power Station
- ↑ a b Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Finland: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
- ↑ Loviisa Power Plant. (PDF 1.1 MB, p. 2) Fortum , accessed on September 20, 2015 (English).