The light water circulated within a closed circuit. Saturated steam generated in the reactor proper as a result of light water passing through the reactor core was fed to the turbine at a pressure of 6 5 mpa. The ignalina nuclear power plant like all plants with the reactors of the rbmk type had a direct cycle configuration i e.
They presented their findings in a letter addressed to the soviet authorities in moscow kurchatov institute as well as several other nuclear power plants operating in the soviet. On the 2nd of february 1984 operators at ignalina npp issued a note in which they described a sudden increase of reactivity caused by movement of the control rods during the physical launch of the rbmk 1500 reactor. Lithuania s ignalina nuclear power plant has the world s two largest operating nuclear reactors rbmk 1500s that together can produce approximately 2 760 mw of electricity.
Since the breakup of the soviet union lithuania has relied increasingly on nuclear energy for electricity generation. Lithuania s nuclear power program. Due to technical repairs the simulator will not be fully switched on during the tour.
The simulator fully imitates the real plant s control room at the time of the unit s shutdown as of december 31 2009. Take part in an educational excursion to the ignalina nuclear power plant control room simulator. игналинская атомная электростанция ignalinskaya atomnaya elektrostantsiya is a decommissioned two unit rbmk 1500 nuclear power station in visaginas municipality lithuania it was named after the nearby city of ignalina due to the plant s similarities to the infamous.
Ignalinos atominė elektrinė iae russian. The ignalina nuclear power plant lithuanian. The main task of the communications division is to maintain contacts with the public and representatives of mass media public organizations and state institutions as well as with all ignalina nuclear power plant inpp staff informing about the current and future processes in the company the results achieved the implementation of reforms decommissioning projects and other relevant.
Made by jevgenija cholodova. Promo video from the interactive excursion to the simulator of the ignalina nuclear power plant s control room.