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Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II

Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant
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Site of the Nuclear Power Plant Leningrad, including the construction site of the Nuclear Power Plant Leningrad II.
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant is located in Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant
Location of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant in Leningrad Oblast
Country Russia
Location Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast
Coordinates 59°50′50″N 29°02′37″E / 59.84722°N 29.04361°E / 59.84722; 29.04361Coordinates: 59°50′50″N 29°02′37″E / 59.84722°N 29.04361°E / 59.84722; 29.04361
Status Operational
Construction began 1 March 1970 (Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant I)
25 October 2008 (Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II)
Commission date 1 November 1974 (Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant I)
Decommission date 2016 (planned, Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant I)
Owner(s) Rosenergoatom
Nuclear power station
Reactor type RBMK-1000 (Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant I)
VVER-1200/V491 (AES-2006) (Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II)
Reactor supplier Atomstroyexport
Power generation
Units operational 4 x 1,000 MW
Units under const. 2 x 1,170 MW
Units planned 2 x 1,170 MW
Nameplate capacity 4,000 MW
Capacity factor 60.5%
Annual gross output 21,208 GW·h

Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (Russian: Ленинградская атомная электростанция; Ленинградская АЭС (About this sound pronunciation )) is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Sosnovy Bor in Russia's Leningrad Oblast, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, some 70 kilometres (43 mi) to the west of the city centre of Saint Petersburg. It consists of four nuclear reactors of the RBMK-1000 type. These reactors are similar to reactors No. 1 and 2 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Two units of the VVER-1200 type are under construction at Power Plant II to replace the current RBMK reactors when they reach the end of their service lives.

Reactor hall of one of the RBMK units

Construction site for Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II, April 2010

On 25 October 2008, Saint Petersburg Atomenergoproekt began concreting the foundation plate of the reactor building of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II, Unit 1. Cost of the project is estimated to be almost 70 billion Russian ruble (RUR). A construction licence was issued on 22 July 2009.


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