South Urals nuclear power plant
| South Urals nuclear power plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 44 '46 " N , 60 ° 53' 38" E | |
| Country: |
 Russia
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| Data | ||
| Owner: | Rose energoatom | |
| Operator: | Rose energoatom | |
| Project start: | 1984 | |
| Planning finished: | 1st December 1993 | |
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Construction discontinued (gross): |
2 (1600 MW) | |
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Reactors in planning (gross): |
4 (4800 MW) | |
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Planning set (gross): |
1 (800 MW) | |
| Was standing: | June 5, 2008 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The South Urals nuclear power plant ( Russian Южно-Уральская АЭС [ ]) was to be built in the Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia . Construction of the breeder reactors began in 1986 and has been discontinued. However, it is planned to build a new nuclear power plant with four VVER-1200 / 491s as part of the new Russian nuclear program 2007-2015 .
history
The power plant was built on a lake a few kilometers northeast of the Mayak nuclear facility . Three BN reactors were planned. The gross output should be 800 MW and the net output 750 MW. The thermal power of the reactors should be 2100 MW. The reason for the construction of breeder reactors near the Mayak plant was that plutonium prepared in Mayak from nuclear weapons that are no longer required could have been used as fuel in the BN-800 reactors. Each of the breeders should have used an average of 2.5 tons of plutonium per year. Initially, the power plant was to be named Mayak nuclear power plant . It was later renamed the South Urals Nuclear Power Plant.
The basic construction and assembly work for the power plant began in 1984. After initial financing and planning problems with regard to the reactors, construction of units one and two began on January 1, 1986. Unit three initially only remained in the planning phase. A construction freeze was imposed due to a referendum . At that time, two large construction pits had already been dug and part of the foundation of block one had been built. During this construction stop, an environmental impact assessment was carried out independently of the referendum. The results showed that the environment would not be harmed. Up to this stage of construction, the construction cost 400 million rubles (at that time the equivalent of around 240 million US dollars ).
In 1995 it was announced that the construction of the power plant would be postponed. The reason was that again no financial resources were available. The Minister of Atomic Energy in Russia spoke out in favor of the project and granted an injection of 800 million US dollars to complete the reactor. The resumption of construction should take place in 1996. In 1996, 15 billion rubles were promised for the further construction of the power plant. In addition, it was announced that the power station would not cause any damage to the environment, as it was only located in an area that was already contaminated and also used radioactive water, which was radioactively contaminated after the accident in Mayak, for cooling. The power plant should create up to 5000 new jobs.
A month later it was announced that it would take at least $ 12.6 billion to complete the power plant. Because of the explosion in costs, more sources of funding would be needed. However, since there were no sources of finance available, the plans to resume construction were stopped for the time being.
At the end of 1996 it was announced that the construction of three new BN-800 reactors in the town of Osjorsk, only a few kilometers away, was planned to replace the three BN-800 breeder reactors at Mayak. But since the population was against a construction, the power plant project was ended in 1996.
In 1998, the Gosatomnadzor authority received another license to build the breeder reactors in the South Urals . The third block of the power plant has meanwhile been discarded, so that only the two reactors that were already under construction should be completed. The estimated cost of the project was $ 1.5 billion. The reactors were expected to take six to eight years to build and $ 300 million annually to be invested. Chelyabinsk Oblast has supported the construction of the new reactors since there was a power shortage in the oblast. However, since the problem of financing continued to hinder the construction and no investors could be found, the project was finally discontinued.
In April 2000, Minatom announced that construction would resume in 2010.
New building
A new power plant was planned at the same location as part of the new Russian nuclear program project 2007-2015 . Thereby one relies on four WWER-1200/491 in the design of the AES-2006 . Some environmental impact studies have already been carried out in order to carry out a new building on the site. However, further construction of the BN reactors is still an option. However, the population in Chelyabinsk is against building a nuclear power plant. 61% were against a nuclear power plant, while 21% were for it, 18% had no opinion on it. The governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast as well as Rosatom have decided to build at this location.
The 30-kilometer zone around the nuclear facility in Mayak, where the power plant is to be built, is currently being investigated to determine the effects of radioactive radiation in general and the radiation exposure on the construction process and on the workers who work in the power plant. On October 21, 2007, the abandoned construction site of the power plant was inspected. The governor had spoken out in favor of building a nuclear power station only at this location, if at all. The infrastructure required for this in the sense of water connections, enough apartments and a central fire station are already in place.
Some professors have stated that the three BN-800 reactors are the most economical because they can be used to process nuclear fuel and they are also very economical in their nuclear fuel consumption. In this way, Russia would have created a closed fuel cycle. The spent fuel elements of the breeder reactors can be reprocessed and the fuel used in other reactors.
On July 22nd, 2008 Rosenergoatom announced plans for the construction of a four-story nuclear power plant with a capacity of 4.6 GW. The nuclear power plant is intended to secure the region's electricity supply. The reactors are scheduled to start operations in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. They are designed for 50 years of operation.
Data of the reactor blocks
The nuclear power plant should get three blocks first; four are currently being planned:
| Reactor block | Reactor type | Net power [MW] |
Gross power [MW] |
start of building | Network synchronization | Commercial operation |
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| South Urals-1 | BN-800 | 750 | 800 | January 1, 1986 | - | - Planning discontinued on December 1, 1993 |
| South Urals-2 | ||||||
| South Urals 3 | - | |||||
| South Urals-1 | WWER-1200/491 (AES-2006) |
1070 | 1200 | - | - | (Planned for 2016) |
| South Urals-2 | - | - | (Planned for 2018) | |||
| South Urals 3 | - | - | (Planned for 2019) | |||
| South Urals 4 | - | - | (Planned for 2020) |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Russia: South Urals (Yuzhnouralskaya) NPP ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ a b Construction of South Urals Nuclear Station Becomes Ministry Project ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ a b c d Куда "посадят" АЭС? ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)
- ↑ a b c d e WNA Information Paper Nuclear Power in Russia (English)
- ↑ Rosenergoatomatom Press Center - July 22, 2008 - Rosenergoatom Concern presents an NPP project in Chelyabinsk ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ South Urals nuclear power plant 1 in the IAEA's PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ South Ural 2 nuclear power plant in the IAEA's PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ South Ural 3 nuclear power plant in the IAEA's PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
