Today I decided to review all nuclear power plants in Russia. A total of 11 nuclear power plants at the end of last year for the first time produced more than 20% of the country's total electricity. At the same time, even a Soviet-era record was set in absolute production indicators - more than 215 billion kWh.
I tried to briefly tell you about each of the domestic nuclear power plants. This is a popular review through the eyes of a reactor engineer, so I will try to show the features of each of these stations, which reactors have worked or are working at each of them, what technologies have been mastered at them, and what is their role in the domestic nuclear power industry. I have been to many of these nuclear power plants, so I diluted the story with personal impressions.
So from this video you can find out who was the first to build nuclear power plants - the USSR or the USA, how nuclear power plants differ from reactors for producing plutonium, when the largest nuclear power plant in our country is operating in Siberia, what are the features of VVER, RBMK, BN reactors or EGP-6.
Old NPPs mentioned in the video: Obninsk NPP, Siberian NPP, ADE-3 at the MCC.
Operating stations mentioned in the video:
Beloyarsk NPP, Novovoronezh NPP, Kola NPP, Bilibinskaya NPP, FNPP Akademik Lomonosov, Leningrad NPP (1 and 2), Kursk NPP (1 and 2), Smolensk NPP, Kalinin NPP, Balakovskaya NPP, Rostov NPP.
Unfinished NPPs:
Voronezh AST, Gorkovskaya AST, Bashkir NPP, South Ural NPP, Kostroma NPP, Baltic NPP.
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The video uses photographs of the official pages of Rosatom and Rosenergoatom in social networks, the Rosatom photo bank (www.flickr.com/photos/rosatom), the Strana-rosatom newspaper (strana-rosatom.ru/), the portal http: / /www.biblioatom.ru/, Artem Krasnov's website (krasnov74.ru/) and the author's own photographic materials.
Time codes:
00:00 - Introduction
00:42 - Obninsk NPP. The first in the world
2:30 - What is the difference between a plutonium production reactor and a nuclear power plant?
6:20 - Siberian nuclear power plant dual purpose
8:48 - Beloyarsk NPP. AMB and BN
13:15 - Novovoronezh NPP. VVER land cradle
15:42 - Kola NPP. The first and most powerful in the Arctic Circle
16:43 - Bilibino NPP. EGP-6, the first Soviet small nuclear power plant
18:30 - FNPP Academician Lomonosov. About floating nuclear power plants
21:10 - Leningrad NPP. First with serial RBMK-1000
22:48 - on the pros and cons of RBMK
24:27 - Leningrad NPP-2 with two VVER-1200
25:16 - about the NPP cooling system - cooling ponds and cooling towers
28:05 - Kursk NPP. 4 RBMK-1000
29:23 - Kursk NPP-2 and the first VVER-TOI
30:08 - Smolensk NPP. The youngest and smallest with RBMK-1000.
30:47 - Kalinin NPP. First with serial VVER-1000
32:35 - Balakovo NPP and its "twin sister" Zaporozhye NPP
34:33 - REMIX-Topilvo at Balakovo NPP
35:34 - Rostov NPP. Southernmost and youngest
36:46 - On unfinished NPPs: Voronezh and Gorkovskie AST, Bashkir, South Ural and other NPPs.
37:57 - electricity records even in comparison with the USSR
40:03 - what kind of nuclear power plants were built in Russia in the XXI century
41:38 - what kind of nuclear power plants Russia is building at home and abroad
42:27 - new small nuclear power plants in Russia