Operators at the Leningrad nuclear power station near St Petersburg have taken a major step in the decommissioning one of their oldest Soviet-built reactors by removing all the fuel from its core.
According to the environmental group Bellona, the fuel withdrawn from Leningrad-1, a 925-MW RBMK plant, will be reused in the two other RBMK units that are still operating at the station – a process that that is reasonably common for this graphite-moderated reactor model, but is not done with more contemporary boiling water units.
According to the environmental group Bellona, the fuel withdrawn from Leningrad-1, a 925-MW RBMK plant, will be reused in the two other RBMK units that are still operating at the station – a process that that is reasonably common for this graphite-moderated reactor model, but is not done with more contemporary boiling water units.
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