USSR power reactor programme
Creators
- 1. UKAEA Headquarters, London
- 2. UKAEA Safety and Reliability Directorate, Culcheth
Description
Nuclear power is essential to the economy of the USSR. At the end of 1985 their total nuclear generating capacity was 26 GWe (15% of the total electricity production). The nuclear generating capacity is expected to double by 1990 and be increased five fold by the year 2000, with two main types of power reactor, the RBMK (boiling water, pressure tube, graphite-moderated) reactor, such as was the Chernobyl-4 unit, and the VVER. Both types of reactors in service and under construction in the USSR are listed. There has been no change in the USSR's policy of developing nuclear power following the Chernobyl accident. However, once the RBMK reactors under construction are finished (Chernobyl 5 and 6 may not be completed) the programme will then change to build VVER units. (U.K.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority; H.M. Stationery Office.
- Imprint Place
- London (UK)
- ISBN
- 085356216-4
- Imprint Title
- The Chernobyl accident and its consequences
- Imprint Pagination
- vp.
- Journal Page Range
- 4 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 19085146
- Subject category
- S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ENERGY POLICY; LWGR TYPE REACTORS; NUCLEAR POWER; PLANNING; POWER GENERATION; USSR
- Descriptors DEC
- DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; POWER; REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- NOR--4200.