04.03.2011 15:22  Public Information Centre of Kalinin NPP

Kalinin NPP: on March 6, power unit No. 3 will be put into “cool reserve”

Since March 6, 2011 Kalinin NPP (Tver region) power unit No. 3 will be put into “cool reserve” due to the limits of electric power consumption during the holidays.

The power unit shutdown will be performed in accordance with the process requirements, on the basis of a consistent application with Joint Dispatching Power System Control Centre and Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC, the operating organization.

Kalinin NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is situated in the north of Tver region in Udomlya district. Kalinin nuclear power plant comprises three operating power units with pressurized water reactors (VVER-1000) of 1,000 mW capacity each. Power unit No. 4 is under construction now and is to be commissioned in 2011.

Timely information about the radiation environment near Russian NPPs and other objects of the nuclear industry is available in the site www.russianatom.ru.


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