Russia
Facilities Last updated: December, 2011
Nuclear
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The below entries provide analytical descriptions of selected nuclear facilities in Russia. Since definitive information on Russia's nuclear facilities is often classified, the descriptions and locations of these facilities are sometimes speculative, based on the most credible available open source material. Entries are regularly updated as further information becomes available.
As of November 2011, new entries on many of Russia's nuclear facilities are being written. In the interim, only descriptions of selected Russian nuclear power reactors are provided on this page.
Facilities Descriptions
Nuclear-Power Reactor
- Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant
- Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant
- Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP)
- Kola Nuclear Power Plant
- Kostroma Nuclear Power Plant
- Kursk Nuclear Power Plant
- Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP)
- Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II
- Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant (NVNPP)
- Rostov Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP)
- Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant (SNPP)
This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, or agents. Copyright © 2011 by MIIS.
Get the Facts on Russia
- Maintains a nuclear arsenal of approximately 12,000 warheads
- Pursued a covert biological weapons program during the Soviet era while a state party to the BTWC
- Scheduled to complete destruction of its chemical weapons stockpile by April 2012
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