The Kola Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Kolsk NPP or Kolskaya NPP, is a nuclear power plant located 12 km away from Polyarnye Zori, Murmansk Oblast in north-western Russia. If the floating nuclear
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Turbine Hall at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor Unit 1 at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant
Kola Nuclear Power Plant in 2008
The water-water energetic reactor, or VVER is a series of pressurized water reactor designs developed in the Soviet Union and Russia by OKB Gidropress. The name refers to the use of water as both the
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…1 (No. 1 and 2 reactors) at the Kola NPP went online in 1973 and 1974, respectively, and are part of Russia’s first generation of PWR reactors (the VVER 440/230 type). The Phase 2 (No. 3 and 4 reactors) went online in 1981 and 1984 with the improved VVER 440/213 type. Phase 1 reactors were designed to…
View of the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant site, with four operational VVER-1000 reactors
VVER-440 reactor hall at Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant
Construction of a VVER-1000 reactor vessel at Atommash
Control room of a VVER-1000 in 2009, Kozloduy Unit 5