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1971 - the year of the beginning of the preparation of design documentation for the first nuclear power plant in the western part of Ukraine. The original name was West Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, which was changed during construction.
In 1980, the first electricity was already working for the benefit of consumers.
General information
The maximum power that Rivne NPP can generate is 2 million 835 thousand kW. The station generates more than ten percent of all Ukrainian electricity and twenty percent among nuclear power plants in Ukraine.
The total number of personnel involved in the work of the “Separate Subdivision “Rivne NPP” exceeds eight thousand people, of which almost four thousand have higher specialized education.
The plant complies with all international safety requirements, confirmed by repeated stringent inspections by the IAEA and the global organization that unites companies that operate nuclear power plants - HLW.
By the way, this is the first nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union, which received international inspectors. A multinational delegation gave the highest rating to safety and workflow.
Geographic location
Rivne NPP is located on the banks of the Styr River. The territory is characterized by low density, remoteness from large cities, infertile soils. Rivne NPP on the map of Ukraine is located in the city of Kuznetsovsk, named after the famous intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov. The overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the settlement are connected with the Rivne NPP. Even the emblem of the city has an image of a nuclear power plant.
Power units
Rovno NPP operates four nuclear reactors - two VVER-440s, built in 1980 and 1981, each with a capacity of 440 MW, and two modernized, more technically advanced VVER-1000s. Rivne Nuclear Power Plant received the third block in 1986.
The last power unit was commissioned only in 2004. Rivne NPP came under a moratorium on the construction and commissioning of any nuclear facility, adopted in 1991 by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Only in 1994, after the lifting of the ban, the work was continued, but dragged on for almost a decade due to unstable funding and security additions to the technical documentation.
The original project provided for the construction of two more power units with a total capacity of two MW. At the moment, the project is frozen, but in the future it is possible to implement it. Commissioning will solve many problems with electric energy, both within Ukraine and neighboring countries. The approximate cost of one power unit is one billionEuro.
Research and security
Rivne NPP produces not only electricity. Almost from the very first day of the opening of the station, a laboratory has been functioning that studies remote methods of monitoring the reactor zone. Leading physicists take part in research.
Scientists are developing documentation, monitoring the technical condition of each of the reactors and the station as a whole, upgrading and developing databases.
Sixteen posts on the territory of the nuclear power plant around the clock measure the background radiation and emissions. Modern meteorological systems record wind speed and direction, pressure, and ambient temperature. The data is freely available on the official website of the station.
The main principle that NPP workers are guided by is to maintain the maximum level of equipment safety. The station has a strict access system. The level of security meets the advanced world standards.
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