RUSSIA TESTS VVER-1200 REACTOR AT LENINGRAD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Russian Rosenergoatom has started cold and hot function testing of the VVER-1200 reactor at unit 1 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant under construction in western Russia. The cold and hot tests mark the beginning of full-scale commissioning of the reactor. Hot running will have to confirm the operability of the main and auxiliary equipment and systems of the reactor operating modes. Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant 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 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. The two units of the VVER-1200 type will replace the current RBMK reactors when they reach the end of their service lives. (Source: Rosenergoatom – Image: Leningrad NPP)