Balakovo nuclear power station ( Russian : Балаковская АЭС , romanized : Balakovskaya AES [ pronunciation ]) is located in the city of Balakovo , Saratov Oblast , Russia, about 900 kilometres (560 mi) south-east of Moscow . It consists of four operational reactors; fifth and sixth unit construction cancelled. Owner and operator of the nuclear power station is Rosenergoatom .
5-559: Balakovo NPP participates in a twinning program between nuclear power stations in Europe and Russia; since 1990 it has been in partnership with Biblis Nuclear Power Plant . The Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant has four operating units: In 2018 Rosatom announced it had developed a thermal annealing technique for reactor pressure vessels which ameliorates radiation damage and extends service life by between 15 and 30 years. This had been demonstrated on unit 1. On 27 June 1985 during startup of
10-745: Is a nuclear power plant in the German municipality of Biblis that consists of two units: unit A with a gross output of 1200 megawatts and unit B with a gross output of 1300 megawatts. Both units are pressurized water reactors . The operator of this power plant is the German RWE Power AG , an electrical utility based in Essen . Unit A began operation on 16 July 1974, and entered commercial service on 25 August 1974; unit B reached criticality on 25 March 1976 . Both units now are shut down indefinitely for political reasons ( Atomausstieg ). Biblis
15-729: Is the partner power station of the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant . In March 2013, Angela Merkel ordered the three-month closure of the Biblis Nuclear Power Plant as an immediate response to the Fukushima accident . RWE complied with the decree by shutting Biblis-A immediately. The administrative court for the German state of Hesse ruled that this order was illegal. The court ruled that RWE had not been given sufficient opportunity to respond to
20-475: The first reactor unit, a human error (later attributed to inexperience and haste) unexpectedly opened a pressurizer relief valve , and 300 °C (572 °F) steam caused an explosion of the turbine and entered the staff work area. Fourteen people were killed. This event is cited as one of the predecessors of the Chernobyl disaster . Biblis Nuclear Power Plant The Biblis Nuclear Power Plant
25-419: The order. Nevertheless, the units are now indefinitely shut down, due to the government's later decision to phase out all nuclear power (Atomausstieg). On 17 December 1987, an incident ( INES 1) occurred: Operators overlooked a stop valve that had not been closed. In order to close the armature a valve was opened. The radioactive primary cooling water discharged for a short time into the annular space. Because
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