Smolensk nuclear power plant

Smolensk nuclear power plant
location
Coordinates	54 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  E
Country:	Russia
Data
Owner:	Rose energoatom
Operator:	Rose energoatom
Project start:	1975
Commercial operation:	September 30, 1983
Active reactors (gross):	3 (3000 MW)
Construction discontinued (gross):	1 (1000 MW)
Planning set (gross):	2 (3000 MW)
Energy fed in in 2010:	19,286.31 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	447,560 GWh
Website:	The nuclear power plant on the side of the operator (English)
Was standing:	June 9, 2011
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Smolensk nuclear power plant ( Russian Смоленская АЭС [ listen ^{? / I} ], abbreviation САЭС, SAES) is located about three kilometers from the Russian city ​​of Desnogorsk in Smolensk Oblast on the Desna River . Due to the high cooling water requirement of RBMK and the high radioactive emissions during normal operation, an artificial lake of 42 square kilometers was created. The nuclear power plant is named after the city of Smolensk , 153 kilometers to the north-west . In recent years, the nuclear power plant has fed an average of 18 billion kilowatt hours per year into the public power grid. The owner and operator of the nuclear power plant is the state-owned company Rosenergoatom .

history

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Construction of the first nuclear reactor began on October 1, 1975. The second reactor block followed on June 1, 1976. On September 30, 1983, the first and on July 5, 1985 the second reactor block was put into operation. In May 1984 and October 1984 construction began on reactor units three and four. Unit 3 did not go into operation until October 12, 1990. This makes the Smolensk 3 reactor the newest RBMK in Russia or in the former Soviet Union. Due to the Chernobyl disaster , construction of the 4th block was stopped in the summer of 1986. The second double block of the nuclear power plant thus remained unfinished. In contrast to the Kursk nuclear power plant, the construction site was not preserved, so that further construction is not possible.

The net performance of the three reactors is each 925  megawatts  (MW), the gross power at 1,000 MW. The thermal output is 3,200 MW.

A complex for processing radioactive waste is to be built on the site of the Smolensk nuclear power plant by 2014. The facility has been under construction since 2002 as part of the TACIS program. The plant is being built by Areva , All Trade , BIS and Fontijnes Grotnes, among others . The delivery of the components should be completed by 2009. The EU Commission will test and license the components in 2008.

safety

The Smolensk 1 and Smolensk 2 blocks built first belong to the second generation of RBMK. The third belongs to the third generation of RBMK.

On September 19, 1994 it was reported that the control mechanism of the control rods in Block 1 was not working.

On December 19, 2005, just three days after the furnace explosion at the Leningrad nuclear power plant , a transformer exploded at one of the distribution stations of the Smolensk nuclear power plant, causing a subsequent fire. But after a short time it was under control.

Smolensk II nuclear power plant

The Smolensk II nuclear power plant is to become the successor power plant at this location. Four reactors of the type WWER-1200/491 in the design of the AES-2006 are planned . It is not yet certain when construction will start. Originally, construction was to begin in 2017 (II-1) and the first reactor to go into operation in 2022 and the second in 2024. The launches have now been postponed to 2027 and 2029 respectively .

Data of the reactor blocks

The Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant has three blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Smolensk 1	RBMK-1000	925 MW	1,000 MW	10/01/1975	12/09/1982	09/30/1983	(Planned for 2028)
Smolensk 2	RBMK-1000	925 MW	1,000 MW	06/01/1976	05/31/1985	07/02/1985	(Planned for 2030)
Smolensk 3	RBMK-1000	925 MW	1,000 MW	05/01/1984	January 17, 1990	October 12, 1990	(Planned for 2034)
Smolensk 4	RBMK-1000	925 MW	1,000 MW	10/01/1984	-	-	Construction canceled on December 1st, 1993
Smolensk 5	Pressurized water reactor ( EPR )	1,450 MW	1,500 MW	-	-	-	Planning discontinued
Smolensk 6	Pressurized water reactor (EPR)	1,450 MW	1,500 MW	-	-	-	Planning discontinued

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RIA Novosti - 17/07/2008 - The new processing plant for radioactive waste in the Smolensk nuclear power plant should be completed in 2014
2. ↑ reyl.de - Information about the Smolensk NPP
3. ↑ NTI - Russia: Smolensk NPP ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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) 
4. ↑ RIA Novosti - 20/12/2005 - RIA Novosti short messages from Tuesday, December 20, 2005
5. ↑ WNA - Nuclear Power in Russia (English)
6. ↑ world nuclear news: Russian ministry agrees to postponement of new reactors May 27, 2015 July 17, 2015
7. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Russian Federation: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
8. ↑ ^{a b} World Nuclear Association - "Nuclear Power in Russia"
9. ↑ ГОДОВОЙ ОТЧЕТ 2017 (Annual Report 2017). (PDF) Rosenergoatom , May 25, 2018, accessed June 24, 2019 (Russian). 
10. ↑ Smolensk 4 nuclear power plant in the IAEA's PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
11. ↑ Smolensk 5 nuclear power plant in the IAEA PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
12. ↑ Smolensk 6 nuclear power plant in the IAEA PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of nuclear facilities
• List of RBMK
• List of nuclear facilities in Russia

Web links

Commons : Smolensk nuclear power plant  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the power plant operated by Rosenergoatom (English, Russian)
• Plague: Smolensk (Russia)
• The Smolensk nuclear power plant on the website of the environmental organization Bellona (English)