Russian Nuclear Power Plants

The Russians are, however, actively engaged in developing or planning to develop a series of new nuclear power facilities located in close proximity to major population centers where electrical energy is most desperately needed for industrial, commercial and residential use. Some regulatory and other efforts are being created to prevent a repetition of the Chernobyl meltdown and other "incidents" and "accidents" that have typically characterized the sector. The report presents statistics on nuclear power facilities and development plans.

Political and economic upheavals over the past decade have weakened the ability of the Soviet successor states to monitor and control their potentially dangerous nuclear assets, assets that include completed weapons and

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, about 30 years. The other power reactors in the former Soviet Union, the VVER models, are of the safer pressurized-water design, but the older versions lack containment structures or emergency cooling systems, and even the latest models are considered deficient in fire-protection systems and wiring. Thus, throughout the 1990s, a number of important issues and themes regarding the nuclear power situation in the former Soviet Union were identified in the literature. About 60 of the major nuclear power plants in the former Soviet bloc were identified as unsafe. This led officials of the Group of Seven major industrial countries to agree in principle to establish a fund that would lend money to the nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to repair nuclear power plants. Though the fund was anticipated as eventually totaling $700 million, it was introduced with $75 million of which all but $14 million was contributed by Germany and France -- the G-7 nations most likely to experience problems due to fallout should a reactor accident in Eastern Europe occur (McKie, 1994). Nevertheless, McKie (1994) claimed that the Russian nuclear industry was in the mid-1990s, on the verge of creating an international environme
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