06.04.2015 19:13 

The Kursk NPP: power generation exceeds 2.6 billion KWh - 103.6% of the planned target - in March

In March 2015 the Kursk NPP developed 2 billion 628 million KWh of electricity. Monthly plan was fulfilled by 103.6%.

Consumers were released 2 billion 436.6 million KWh (103.7%).

The installed capacity of nuclear power plant in March was used on 88.31%, which also exceeds the planned target.

The Kursk NPP has generated more than 810 billion 319,5 million KWh since its start in 1976.

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

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.

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.


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