/ world today news/ The production of electricity from nuclear power plants in Russia in 2020 reached an absolute record in the country’s nuclear energy and amounted to 215.74 billion kWh. This is stated in the announcement of the concern “Rosenergoatom” (part of the electricity division of “Rosatom”).
“We ended 2020 with an absolute record in the entire history of Russian nuclear energy, achieved only in the Soviet era in 1988, when all nuclear power plants produced 215.669 billion kWh (including nuclear power plants in Ukraine, Lithuania and Armenia),” the message reads. of the General Director of “Rosenergoatom” Andrey Petrov.
In 2019, Russian nuclear power plants generated 208.8 billion kWh. Thus, last year, production at Russian nuclear power plants increased by 3.3% on an annual basis.
According to “Rosenergoatom”, at the peak of the development of nuclear energy in 1988, 47 power units were operating in the Soviet Union, now there are 37. In 2021, one more reactor of the NPP is being prepared for commissioning – the Sixth of the Leningrad NPP with a reactor VVER-1200. The share of nuclear energy in the country’s energy balance is currently around 19%.
The maximum power among Russian NPPs in 2020 was provided by the nuclear power plants at Rostov (over 32.8 billion kWh), Balaklovo (over 30.6 billion kWh) and Kalinin (over 28.4 billion kWh).
The increase in NPP energy production in 2020 with a reduction in industrial production due to the coronavirus was achieved, among other things, by optimizing the duration of the repair campaigns, which allowed an additional 2.4 billion kWh to be obtained, as well as the transition from 12-month to 18-month repair cycle of the Sixth Reactor of the Novovoronezh NPP. In addition, in May 2020, a floating nuclear power plant was put into operation in Chukotka, which since the beginning of the year has generated about 127.3 million kWh, and in October, the new Sixth reactor of the Leningrad NPP, model VVER-1200.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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