05.09.2014 

The Kola NPP: power unit ?4 disconnected from the network

On September 5 at 10.46 the power units ?4 of the Kola NPP was disconnected from the network by an agreed request to check the temperature of the control system within the planned dynamic test of the power unit.

As of September 5, 2014 there are power units ?? 1, 2, 3 in work, the load of the nuclear power plant is 1,093 MW according to the operations schedule.

The radiation situation around an arrangement of the Kolskaya nuclear power plant and in a 30-kilometer zone of supervision doesn't differ from a natural natural background.  The Kolskaya nuclear power plant is a branch of JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". The station is located in 200 km to the South from Murmansk on the shore of the Lake Imandra. It develops about 60% of the electric power of Murmansk region. There are 4 power units in operation with reactors of type VVER 440 MW each. The Kolskaya nuclear power plant is the supplier of the electric power for Murmansk region and Karelia.   Current information about a radiation situation near the nuclear power plant in Russia and other objects of the nuclear industry is provided on a site www.russianatom.ru.




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