It explains nuclear fission, focusing on Uranium-235 and how reactors maintain a controlled chain reaction using control rods ...

Leningrad NPP has received a licence to operate the RBMK reactor at unit 3 until 2030. The decision to issue a licence was ...

The second unit of the Leningrad NPP with the RBMK reactor is being prepared for decommissioning. The removal of nuclear fuel from the power unit has been completed. All fuel assemblies (fuel ...

Making matters worse, the two units in operation use the same so-called RBMK technology that melted down during the notorious 1986 accident in Chernobyl. Unlike modern nuclear reactors ...

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

First of all RBMK reactors must be replaced, he noted. The share of atomic energy generation is planned to be increased. At present, NPPs account for 16.5 percent. The optimal share is 25 percent ...

ST. PETERSBURG. Feb 3 (Interfax) - Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP), a subsidiary of Rosenergoatom Concern, has received a license from the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and ...

Russia’s Government has approved the general layout of electric power facilities until 2042, which includes the first two ...

(Image: sikaraha/stock.adobe.com) The RBMK-1000 unit, which entered commercial service in 1980, has generated more than 290 billion kWh of electricity, and had already had its original 30-year ...

If the cleanup wasn't successful, he said, the Soviet Union might have stopped operating all of its RBMK reactors (the kind used at the Chernobyl plant). His personal mission became twofold ...