Leningrad NPP

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2 August 2021
Integrated technical inspection has confirmed the high reliability and safety of the new units of the Leningrad NPP
In the course of the integrated inspection, inspectors carried out walk-down of plant, interviews with managers and personnel of the Leningrad NPP-2.

29 October 2015
Leningrad NPP: Vietnam counts on help of the Russian side in training for new nuclear power stations
The Leningrad NPP was visited by the delegation from Vietnam on October 26, 2015. This is not the first meeting, the guests from the distant Vietnam have met for the third time.

22 October 2015
Leningrad NPP: growth of production in monetary terms amounted to 4.2% for the first 9 months of 2015
The actual production volume of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (branch of the JSC "Concern", Leningrad region) for the production of electricity and heat for the first 9 months of 2015 has amounted to 24 billion 391.67 million rubles or 104.2% of the corresponding figure for the same period in 2014 ( 23 billion 409.59 million rubles).

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Leningrad NPP is situated 80 km west of St.Petersburg on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea. It consists of four 1000 MW units. The 1 st and 2nd units are situated 5 km south-west of Sosnovy Bor, the 3 rd and 4th ones – 2 km to the west.

Leningrad NPP is a bright example of an advanced industrial enterprise of the age of scientific-technical revolution.

Its unique image serves two main ideas: it is an organic part of plain nature and, at the same time, a typical model of a sophisticated industrial facility.

It is really grandiose: its main building is 1,200,000 m3 large, the reactor 56 m high, the façade over 400 m long.

The architecture is laconic and clear: everything is subservient to the technological process. The elegant, specifically silhouetted reactors constitute a vast impressive complex. The plant is as big as it is meaningful.

Technology is the domineering element: it cements the edifice giving it external finish and internal stability.

The pivot of the complex is the vertical line of the air chimney – it gives the complex peculiarity you will never forget. But this plant is not only a piece of architecture. It is also a system of operating units. And everything here is well-adjusted and perfectly-trimmed. Each sub-system has its own specific structural module – but all together they make an optimum that serves maximum efficiency.

Special attention is given to the multiple forced circulation facilities – the technological and architectural basis of an NPP with RBMK reactors.

This is a product of high architectural intelligence and effective functional mentality, a model for all future RBMK NPPs.

If you look at the plant from the sea, it will appear as an elegant contrast of skyscraping vertical and far-stretching horizon.

The façade is really amazing, with a vast mosaic of colored glass shining brightly in the sun

The color palette ranges from light gray and white in the 1st and 2 nd units to bright blue of the 3rd and 4th units. This bright blue spots are meant to give the reactors a major sounding against the tranquil accompaniment of the white-and-gray landscape.