Title: Nuclear Power in Russia | Russian Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association
Headings: Nuclear Power in Russia
Nuclear Power in Russia
Operable Reactors
Reactors Under Construction
Reactors Shutdown
Operable nuclear power capacity
Electricity sector
Total generation (in 2018): 1115 TWh
Total consumption: 760 TWh
Per capita consumption: c. 5300 kWh in 2018
Present nuclear capacity
Power reactors in operation
Life extension, uprates and completing construction
Individual operating power plants
Retiring old units
Building new nuclear capacity
Power Reactors under Construction
Power Reactors Planned and Officially Proposed
Rostov 3&4 (formerly Volgodonsk)
Novovoronezh II
Leningrad II
Nizhny Novgorod
Tatar
Central/Kostroma
South Urals
Kola II
Kursk II
Smolensk II
Seversk
Baltic
Tver
Pevek
Other
Further Power Reactors Proposed, uncertain status
Transition to Fast Reactors
Federal Target Programme: Advanced Nuclear Power Technologies 2010-2020
Federal target programme 2010 funding for fast neutron reactors to 2020
MBIR
Proryv (Breakthrough) project
Aluminium and nuclear power
Nuclear icebreakers and merchant ship
LK-60 icebreaker (Rosatom)
Floating nuclear power plants
Heating
Heavy engineering and turbine generators
Reactor technology
VVER-1000, AES-92, AES-91
VVER-1200, AES-2006, MIR-1200
VVER-1300, VVER-TOI
VVER-1300A
Russian PWR nuclear power reactors *
VVER-600
VVER-1500
VVER-1800
VVER-SKD-1700
VVER-I
VVER with spectral core
Small VVERs
VBER-300, VBER-200 to 500
VK-300 BWR
AST-500
RBMK/LWGR
HTRs
Fast reactors
BN-600 Beloyarsk 3
BN-800 Beloyarsk 4
Beloyarsk 4 (Rosatom)
BN-1200 Beloyarsk 5
BREST-300 Seversk
SVBR-100 Dimitrovgrad
Improving reactor performance through fuel development
International collaboration
Export of nuclear reactors
Export sales and prospects for Russian nuclear power plants (post-Soviet)
Notes & References
General sources
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