Nuclear power plant with medium-capacity pressurized water reactors

The conditions are discussed for establishing an association (joint venture) of corporations from Czechoslovakia and the USSR and the Siemens company to accomplish the project of a medium-capacity PWR nuclear power plant. The design was worked out for a concrete site in Czechoslovakia; the plant equipment would be unified to the highest possible degree, the reactors would use Soviet type fuel, and design experience of Siemens manufacturers would be made full use of. Nuclear power plants of this type could be offered to other countries wanting to use fuel mainly from the Soviet Union. The nuclear power plant is suited to combined electricity-and-heat generation up to 500 MWth. It is designed as a two-unit plant with reactors whose unit electric power is 500 to 600 MW. The assumed lifetime of the unit is 50 years. (Z.M.). 9 refs