{"id":11860,"date":"2015-05-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/russian-ministry-agrees-to-postponement-of-new-reactors\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T09:00:00","slug":"russian-ministry-agrees-to-postponement-of-new-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/russian-ministry-agrees-to-postponement-of-new-reactors\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian ministry agrees to postponement of new reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Russia\u2019s ministry of economic development has approved the postponement of the commissioning of new power plants, its deputy minister, Nikolai Podguzov, announced yesterday.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The ministry estimates that \u201ca very significant\u201d delay to the start-up of the nuclear power units is being made, Podguzov said, according to the <em>TASS<\/em> news agency, but all the relevant federal executive bodies have agreed with Rosatom\u2019s decision to postpone commissioning. \u201cThese units are simply not needed at the moment thanks to a current energy surplus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of April, Rosatom first deputy director general for operations management, Alexander Lokshin, said that the corporation has postponed by one year the target dates for commissioning the first and second units of Leningrad Phase II, and for the second unit of Novovoronezh Phase II. In early May, Rosenergoatom chief Yevgeny Romanov also said that Rosatom had postponed by five years the construction of Smolensk Phase II.<\/p>\n<p>Leningrad Phase II is a new nuclear power plant adjacent to the existing Leningrad nuclear plant site. Two 1200\u00a0MWe AES-2006\u00a0design units are being built there, with two further AES-2006\u00a0units planned. First criticality of unit 1\u00a0was scheduled for the end of 2015, while start-up of unit 2\u00a0was planned for 2017. The existing Leningrad nuclear power plant is to be withdrawn from service, which is expected in 2018. Startup of units 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0of the new plant was planned for 2020\u00a0and 2021, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Leningrad II is the second of Russia\u2019s new AES-2006\u00a0nuclear power plants using VVER-1200\u00a0reactors. The first is Novovoronezh II, which employs a slightly different reactor model of the VVER-1200\u00a0from Leningrad II. The first unit at the plant, construction of which began in 2008, had originally been planned to start up in 2012. Construction of the second unit began a year later, with a planned start-up date of 2013, although this was subsequently revised to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of Novovoronezh II units 1\u00a0and 2, also known as Novovoronezh units 6\u00a0and 7, began in June 2008\u00a0and July 2009, respectively. The original Novovoronezh site nearby already hosts three operating reactors and two that are being decommissioned.<\/p>\n<p>The reactor pressure vessel was installed at unit 2\u00a0of Novovoronezh II in March this year. The unit is scheduled to start commercial operation in February 2018. Preparations for first criticality started at unit 1\u00a0in February.<\/p>\n<p>Smolensk Phase II, which will consist of two to four VVER-1200\u00a0reactors, is to replace the three RBMK reactors at the site. First concrete was planned for unit 1\u00a0in 2017, with the unit becoming operational in 2022. The second Smolensk II unit was expected to start operations in 2024. Extensive refurbishment work has already been completed at unit 1, which received a ten-year licence extension in 2012\u00a0and is now licensed to operate until the end of 2022. Similar work is expected to be completed at unit 2\u00a0in 2015, followed by upgrading of the more modern unit 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s ministry of economic development has approved the postponement of the commissioning of new power plants, its deputy minister, Nikolai Podguzov, announced yesterday. The ministry estimates that \u201ca very significant\u201d delay to the start-up of the nuclear power units is being made, Podguzov said, according to the TASS news agency, but all the relevant federal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novosti-otrasli"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.6","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russian ministry agrees to postponement of new reactors - 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