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Nuclear power in Russia
Russia is one of the world's largest producers of nuclear energy. In 2020, total electricity generated in nuclear power plants in Russia was 215.746 TWh, 20.28% of all electric power plant generation. The installed gross capacity of Russian nuclear reactors was 29.4 GW as of December 2020.
In accordance with legislation passed in 2001, all Russian civil reactors are operated by Rosenergoatom. More recently in 2007, Russian Parliament adopted the law "On the peculiarities of the management and disposition of the property and shares of organizations using nuclear energy and on relevant changes to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation", which created Atomenergoprom - a holding company for all Russian civil nuclear industry, including Energoatom, nuclear fuel producer and supplier TVEL, uranium trader Tekhsnabexport (Tenex) and nuclear facilities constructor Atomstroyexport.
The overnight cost of construction in the seventies was a low 800 $/kW in 2016 dollars. In 2019, a S&P Global Ratings report stated Russia's nuclear construction costs were well below European levels because of vertical integration, good learning-curve effects from serial production, and the large currency devaluation of 2014.
The Russian nuclear industry employs around 200,000 people. Russia is recognized for its nuclear disaster expertise and for the safety of its technology. Statements made in the review of Russian reactor safety [8] that "Requirements on placing the nuclear installation should not contain additional restrictions in comparison with other industrial facilities," suggest that nuclear plants could be placed within cities and are not considered to pose exceptional dangers. Russia is also pursuing an ambitious plan to increase sales of Russian-built reactors overseas, and had 39 reactors under construction or planned overseas as of 2018.
The VVER-1200 pressurised water reactor is the system currently offered for construction, being an evolution of the VVER-1000 with increased power output to about 1200 MWe (gross) and providing additional passive safety features. In August 2016, the first VVER-1200, Novovoronezh II-1, was connected to the grid.
Through its membership in the multi-nation ITER project, Russia participates in the design of nuclear fusion reactors.
In 2013, the Russian state allocated 80.6 billion rubles ($2.4 billion) toward the growth of its nuclear industry, especially export projects where Russian companies build, own and operate the power station, such as the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant.
In 2016, initial plans were announced to build 11 new nuclear power reactors by 2030, including the first VVER-600, a smaller two-cooling-circuit version of the VVER-1200, designed for smaller regions and markets. Outline plans for near-surface disposal facilities for low and intermediate-level waste, and deep burial disposal facilities for high-level waste were also approved in the Krasnoyarsk Krai region.
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Nuclear power in Russia
Russia is one of the world's largest producers of nuclear energy. In 2020, total electricity generated in nuclear power plants in Russia was 215.746 TWh, 20.28% of all electric power plant generation. The installed gross capacity of Russian nuclear reactors was 29.4 GW as of December 2020.
In accordance with legislation passed in 2001, all Russian civil reactors are operated by Rosenergoatom. More recently in 2007, Russian Parliament adopted the law "On the peculiarities of the management and disposition of the property and shares of organizations using nuclear energy and on relevant changes to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation", which created Atomenergoprom - a holding company for all Russian civil nuclear industry, including Energoatom, nuclear fuel producer and supplier TVEL, uranium trader Tekhsnabexport (Tenex) and nuclear facilities constructor Atomstroyexport.
The overnight cost of construction in the seventies was a low 800 $/kW in 2016 dollars. In 2019, a S&P Global Ratings report stated Russia's nuclear construction costs were well below European levels because of vertical integration, good learning-curve effects from serial production, and the large currency devaluation of 2014.
The Russian nuclear industry employs around 200,000 people. Russia is recognized for its nuclear disaster expertise and for the safety of its technology. Statements made in the review of Russian reactor safety [8] that "Requirements on placing the nuclear installation should not contain additional restrictions in comparison with other industrial facilities," suggest that nuclear plants could be placed within cities and are not considered to pose exceptional dangers. Russia is also pursuing an ambitious plan to increase sales of Russian-built reactors overseas, and had 39 reactors under construction or planned overseas as of 2018.
The VVER-1200 pressurised water reactor is the system currently offered for construction, being an evolution of the VVER-1000 with increased power output to about 1200 MWe (gross) and providing additional passive safety features. In August 2016, the first VVER-1200, Novovoronezh II-1, was connected to the grid.
Through its membership in the multi-nation ITER project, Russia participates in the design of nuclear fusion reactors.
In 2013, the Russian state allocated 80.6 billion rubles ($2.4 billion) toward the growth of its nuclear industry, especially export projects where Russian companies build, own and operate the power station, such as the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant.
In 2016, initial plans were announced to build 11 new nuclear power reactors by 2030, including the first VVER-600, a smaller two-cooling-circuit version of the VVER-1200, designed for smaller regions and markets. Outline plans for near-surface disposal facilities for low and intermediate-level waste, and deep burial disposal facilities for high-level waste were also approved in the Krasnoyarsk Krai region.