Geography of nuclear facilities

Nuclear power plants

Manufacturing companies

Mining companies

Nuclear power engineering is one of the most complex and science-intensive industries. No wonder that Russia, with its vast territory, has brought its plants and factories together into a single gigantic complex.

Big factories or nuclear power plants need lots of workers. Some big strategic facilities employ whole cities. That’s why the people living in such territories have welcomed the reforms in our nuclear sector. All the changes we are making today will, sooner or later, result in the production of modern and safer equipment, in the construction of new powerful nuclear reactors and in active efforts to mine more uranium and other mineral resources for them.

This interactive map will help any visitor of our web-site to quickly obtain useful information about one or another facility. There were times that only few people were aware of their existence but those times have passed. Today, each big company has PR and press services in order to provide people with full and objective information.

It is simply impossible to show all the existing nuclear facilities on this map: if we did, it would be a very heavy site with hundreds of dots spangled all over the place.

Kola NPP

Kola Nuclear Power Plant is situated in the polar region on the shore of Lake Imandra.

In 1973–1984 it launched four units:

two units with W-230 reactors

two units with WWER-440 reactors.

The total thermal capacity of the plant is 5,500MW, the electric capacity — 1,760MW.

Kola NPP supplies electricity to Kolenergo system of Murmansk region and Karelenergo system of the Republic of Karelia. Four 330KV lines connect the plant with the Unified Energy System of Russia.

Kola NPP produces 60% of electricity in Murmansk region.

Leningrad NPP

Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant is the biggest electricity producer in North-Western Russia. It is situated on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, 80 km south-west of St.Petersburg in Sosnovy Bor.

The construction of Leningrad NPP was started in 1967. The general contractor of the project was the Northern Construction Department.

The plant consists of four units with 1,000MW RBMK (water-cooled graphite-moderated channel-type) reactors. The first unit was commissioned in 1973, the fourth—in 1991.

Smolensk NPP

Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant is the biggest NPP in the Nechernozem region of Russia. The plant is situated in Smolensk region, 150 km from Smolensk, 180 km from Bryansk and 350 km from Moscow.

Smolensk NPP operates three units with RBMK-1000 reactors (1000MW water-cooled graphite-moderated channel-type reactors). The plant was supposed to have four reactors but the construction of the 4^th unit was stopped in 1986.

All the units are equipped with emergency response systems, which can prevent release of radioactive matters into the environment even in case of a very serious accident, like the breakage of the pipelines of the reactor cooling circuit. The whole equipment of the reactor cooling circuit is placed in hermetic reinforced concrete boxes, which can stand a pressure of 4.5 kgs/cm2.

Kalinin NPP

Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant is situated in the north of Tver region, 125 km from Tver, 330 km from Moscow and 440 km from St.Petersburg, on the southern shore of Lake Udomlia. The plant covers a total area of 287.37 h.

Kalinin NPP is part of the Unified Energy System of Central Russia. It supplies electricity to eight regions of the country.

The plant also transmits electricity from regions having excess of energy to regions lacking one.

Kursk NPP

Kursk Nuclear Power Plant is situated 40 km south-west of Kursk on the left bank of SeimRiver.

It operates four units with RBMK-1000 reactors (1000MW water-cooled graphite-moderated channel-type reactors).

Kursk NPP is an important part of the Unified Energy System of Russia.

Its key consumer is the Center system covering 19 regions of Central Russia.

Almost 30% of the electricity produced by Kursk NPP is used by Kursk region. Kursk NPP has 11 high-voltage lines, which transmit its electricity to consumers.

Volgodonsk NPP

The project of Volgodonsk Nuclear Power Plant with four WWER-1000 reactors (1,000MW pressurized-water reactors) was approved by the Ministry of Energy of the USSR on Oct 12 1979.

Volgodonsk NPP is part of the Unified Energy System of the North Caucasus, a system covering 11 regions of Russia with a total area of 431,200 sq km and a total population of 17.7mln.

The plant produces not only electricity but also heat and supplies it to its satellite-city, Volgodonsk.

Balakovo NPP

Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant is one of the biggest and most modern power plants in Russia. It has four units with WWER-1000 reactors (1,000MW pressurized-water reactors), built in 1985–1993. The 4^th unit of Balakovo NPP was the first post-Soviet energy project in Russia.

Balakovo NPP generates more than any other power plant in the country and produces 1/5 of the output of all Russian NPPs. 76% of its electricity is supplied to Volga region, 13% to Central Russia, 8% to Ural and 3% to Siberia.

Mashinostroitelny Zavod (Elemash) OJSC, Elektrostal, Moscow region

Elemash is one of the oldest companies of Russia’s nuclear industry with over 50-year experience of production of fuel and materials for nuclear power plants.

Today, Elemash is one of the biggest producers of nuclear fuel. Its fuel assemblies are used by each 10^th nuclear reactor in the world.

Elemash manufactures a wide spectrum of products for the needs of nuclear power plants in Russia and abroad.

Chepetsk Mechanical Plant, Glazov, Republic of Udmurtia

Chepetsk Mechanical Plant is the only in Russia and one of the world’s top three producers of zirconium and zirconium alloys.

CMP produces materials for fuel assemblies as well as uranium components for nuclear fuel.

Beloyarsk NPP

Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant is the only plant in Russia that has operated different types of reactors. The plant has been a testing ground for many innovative technological solutions.

Three units have been built at the plant: two AMB reactors (slow neutron reactors) and one BN reactor (fast breeder reactor).

The AMB reactors are no longer operative: AMB-100 unit (200MW) was stopped in 1981, AMB-200 unit (200MW) — in 1989.

Presently, Beloyarsk NPP operates one 600MW fast-breeder reactor (BN-600). Launched in Apr 1980, it was the first industrial fast-breeder reactor in the world. Today, the 3^rd unit of Beloyarsk NPP is the world’s biggest unit with fast-breeder reactor.

Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate Plant, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk region

Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate Plant is one of Russia’s leading producers of fuel for Russian and foreign nuclear power plants. It has an over four-decade experience of nuclear fuel production. Almost half of energy in Ukraine and Bulgaria is produced by nuclear power plants working on NCCP’s fuel.

NCCP is a modern automated complex of chemical and machine building productions fabricating fuel for nuclear power plants and research reactors. It also has a large-scale lithium production complex.

Mining and Chemical Combine, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk region

Mining and Chemical Combine manufactures uranium products for cooperative deliveries to Rosatom manufacturing companies. It has developed a unique technology for extraction of rare alkaline metals (lithium, rubidium, cesium, gallium) and has established production of synthetic granular zeolites and construction lime.

As part of its technological development program, MCC has modernized its uranium dioxide powder production and has enhanced its output by 1.4 times. The plant has also upgraded its lithium production.

Malyshevskoye Mining Department OJSC, Asbest, Sverdlovsk region

Malyshevskoye Mining Department OJSC processes ore from spoil heaps produced as a result of development of Kvartalny quarry and produces fieldspathic and mica concentrates.

In 2003–2004 the department reconstructed its ore processing factory. As a result, the factory began processing 300,000 tons of ore a year and producing 80,000 tons of fieldspathic concentrate and 3,500 tons of mica concentrate.

Dalur CJSC, Uksyanskoye, Kurgan region

Dalur CJSC mines uranium from Dalmat deposit by means of drill-hole in-situ leeching technology.

Presently, the company is planning to increase its output and is about to start developing Khokhlov deposit. By 2012 Dalur is planning to annually mine 750 tons of uranium from the two deposits.

TransBaikal Ore Mining and Processing Group OJSC, Pervomaisky, Chita region

TransBaikal Ore Mining and Processing Group OJSC produces fluorite concentrates and processes tantalum-niobium concentrates. It also manufactures special equipment and casting and supplies electricity and heat.

The group develops Egitinsky and Zhetkovsky fluorite deposits. Its flotation processing factory produces almost 30,000 tons of spathic concentrate a year. The company also mines and processes gold from Delmachik deposit.

Khiagda OJSC, Rudnik Kadala, Chita

Khiagda OJSC was set up for developing Khiagda uranium deposit by means of drill-hole in-situ leeching technology.

The company carries out active research and development to intensify the in-situ leeching process. Presently, it is building a power transmission line, a motor road and a railroad base. This is the preparatory stage of the plan to produce 1,000 tons of uranium a year in 2012.

Priargun Mining and Chemical Combine, Chita region

Priargun Mining and Chemical Combine is one of the world’s biggest and Russia’s biggest uranium mining companies. It is the largest multi-sector ore mining enterprise in Chita region.

The company develops Streltsovsk ore area, where it mines uranium ore for production of uranium protoxide-oxide. The ore mined from three deposits is processed at a hydro-metallurgical factory. In the last five years Priargun Mining and Chemical Combine has produced an average of 3,000 tons a year.