Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Station was the second nuclear reactor in East Germany after the Rossendorf Research Reactor, and the first nuclear power reactor in East Germany. It was built close to the ci
Rheinsberg nuclear plant
Control room in 1966
Engraving on 10 Mark DDR banknote
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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
Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Plant
…Full start-up was on May 9, and commercial power production began on October 11, 1966. The single pressurized water reactor was of Soviet design – type VVER-210. Gross power of the station was 70 MWe, but 8 MWe was required to run plant systems, so net output to the grid was 62 MWe. Gross power output was…
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