The first power unit has been prepared for the planned maintenance since May 15, 2015 at the Kursk NPP. The turbogenerator №1 of this unit was excluded from the network.

The scheduled maintenance with performance of RRC (recovery of resource characteristics of the graphite stack at the reactor plant) will start on May 17 at the power unit №1.

The planned amount, provided by the annual schedule, of equipments’ current maintenance will be done at the power unit. In addition, control inside of the reactor will be carried out, the results of which will determine the necessary amount of works on the RRC.

The Kursk NPP has power units №№ 1, 2, 3, 4 in work at the moment. They work with capacity, established by the dispatch schedule.

The radiation background is at level, that corresponds to the normal operation of power units and does not exceed natural background values, at the Kursk NPP and in the area of its location.

Updated information about the radiation environment near Russian NPPs and other nuclear facilities is provided on site www.russianatom.ru.

State of power production at the Kursk NPP units and other nuclear power plants of the «Rosenergoatom Concern" is displayed on the site www.rosenergoatom.ru.

The Kursk NPP, as part of the «Rosenergoatom Concern», is included into the electricity division of the State Corporation "Rosatom". The station is located 40 km south-west of the city Kursk on the left bank of Seym. The NPP has four operating units with RBMK RBMK-1000 reactors with total capacity of 4 million KW of electricity. Power units were connected to the unified energy system of the country in 1976, 1979, 1983 and 1985. All existing power units had technical modernization in 1994-2009. The Kursk NPP is the largest power generating source in the Central Russian Chernozem.