LOCATION: Konstyantynivka (Konstantinovka)
Telephone: 380-5136-24988 or 380-5136-27660
Fax: 380-44-227-26-61 or 380-482-232426
[Pacific Northwest Laboratories website,
http://insp.pnl.gov:2080/?profiles/south_ukraine/su.] {Entered 3/2/2000
GD} SUBORDINATION: Enerhoatom
[Pacific Northwest Laboratories website,
http://insp.pnl.gov:2080/?profiles/south_ukraine/su.] {Entered 3/2/2000
GD} ADMINISTRATION: Plant Manager: Leonid Korchagin
Chief Engineer: Volodymyr Redko
[Pacific Northwest Laboratories website,
http://insp.pnl.gov:2080/?profiles/south_ukraine/su.] {Entered 3/2/2000
GD} TYPES: Unit 1: VVER-1000, model 302
Unit 2: VVER-1000, model 338
Unit 3: VVER-1000, model 320
[Steinberg, 8/94.] UNITS: Three
Unit 1: initial criticality in 12/82
(operational 10/83)
Unit 2: initial criticality12/84 (operational
4/85)
Unit 3 initial criticality 9/89 (operational
12/89)
Sources: [1] "World List Of Nuclear Power Plants,"
Nuclear News, September 1994, p. 71. [2] "Power Reactors in Ukraine,"
Uranium Institute - Power Reactors in Ukraine, http://www.uilondon.org/ukrpower.htm.
{Updated on 8/21/96 GN} POWER: 953 MWe per operating
unit
FUEL: Enriched to 3.3-4.4 percent
Sources: [1] NEI World Nuclear Industry Handbook
1992, p. 97. [2] Steinberg, August 1994. STATUS: Unit 4 is still under construction
and is not expected to come on-line until after 2000. According to Serhiy
Lopatin, it is still uncertain whether Unit 4 will ever be completed due
to a lack of financial resources; currently there are no plans for its
completion. Construction was halted between 1990-1993 due to the moratorium
on nuclear power station construction. For more information please see the South
Ukraine Developments and Spent Fuel files, and the Ukraine
General Power Reactor Developments file.
Sources: [1] "Only Eight Nuclear Reactors Functioning,"
UNIAN, 3 October 1995. [2] Interfax-Ukraine, 3 October 1995. [3] "Nuclear Power Programs in Developing
Countries of the World: Eastern Europe and Central Asia," Nuexco review,
No. 322, June 1995, p. 25. [4] Nucleonics Week, 30 July
1992, p. 13. [5] CISNP interview with Ukrainian nuclear
official, June 19, 1995. SAFETY: The US Department of Energy (DOE) is active in improving
safety at the plant. DOE programs began in 1995 and have focused
on developing full-scope simulators for operator training, performing detailed
safety assessments, and providing safety parameter display systems.
Specific management and safety improvements include a full-scope simulator
for Unit 1, operator exchange programs, delivery of components for the
Unit 3 full-scope simulator, training methodology improvements, a computer
with network capabilities, and staff training. Six ultrasonic flaw
detectors were delivered. An in-depth safety assessment of Unit 1
was undertaken in 1999.[1] Enhanced security measures have been completed
at the NPP, but no internal security improvements have been made to eliminate
the threat of an "insider" stealing nuclear material.[2]
Sources: [1] Pacific Northwest Laboratories
website,
http://insp.pnl.gov:2080/?profiles/south_ukraine/su. [2] NISNP discussions with Ukrainian
government official, June 1999, UKR990600. {Entered 3/2/2000
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