Ukraine's Nuclear Power Program
Information provided by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and World Bank International Monetary Fund records
Ukraine has 14 nuclear power reactors in operation at five sites. In addition, two units are under construction. In 1997, Ukrainian nuclear power plants produced 47 percent of the country's electricity.
The Chornobyl Unit 4 accident in 1986 focused international attention on the safety of Ukraine's reactors. The one operating reactor at Chornobyl is Unit 3, an RBMK reactor. The other 13 operating reactors in the country are pressurized light-water reactors (11 VVER-1000s and two VVER 440/213s). The G-7 nations and the European Union are working with Ukraine under a Memorandum of Understanding to close the Chornobyl plant by the year 2000. At Chornobyl, DOE is involved in projects to upgrade equipment and safety procedures at operating Unit 3 and in rehabilitating and making the working conditions safer in the Shelter, which contains the destroyed Unit 4.
Ukraine's Key Nuclear Organizations
- Ministry for Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety - principal Ukrainian agency supporting development of Chornobyl Center.
- Nuclear Regulatory Administration - Ukrainian nuclear regulatory authority.
- Energoatom - utility under the Ministry of Energy responsible for all of Ukraine's nuclear power plants.
- Ukraine Academy of Sciences - parent organization of many scientific and technical institutes with nuclear-related functions.
- International Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology (Kyiv, Ukraine) - research center and technical support organization for nuclear safety and decommissioning activities for Chornobyl NPP and Chornobyl Shelter, as well as for other NPPs in Ukraine.
- Slavutych Laboratory for International Research and Technology - primary technical branch of the Chornobyl Center.
Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Vitaliy Tolstonogov
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-44-934-3109 or 380-44-934-3107
Fax: 380-44-792-5670
Unit | Reactor Model | Net Output | Initial Start | Status |
1 | RBMK-1000 | 925 MWe | 8/1977 | Shut Down 11/1996 |
2 | RBMK-1000 | 950 MWe | 5/1979 | Shut Down 10/1991 |
3 | RBMK-1000 | 925 MWe | 6/1981 | Operating |
4 | RBMK-1000 | 950 MWe | 4/1984 | Destroyed 4/1986 |
Khmelnytskyy Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Nikolai P. Dudchenko
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-38-3350 or 380-38-222-3797
Fax: 380-38-483-3360
Unit | Reactor Model | Net Output | Initial Start | Status |
1 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 12/1987 | Operating |
2 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | Under Construction |
3 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | Under Construction |
4 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | Under Construction |
Rivne Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Vladimir Korovkin
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-36-362-2360 or 380-36-363-5917
Fax: 380-36-362-2314
Unit | Reactor Model | Net Output | Initial Start | Status |
1 | VVER-400/213 | 361 MWe | 12/1980 | Operating |
2 | VVER-400/213 | 384 MWe | 12/1981 | Operating |
3 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 11/1986 | Operating |
4 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | Under Construction |
South Ukraine Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Yuriy L. Kovizhkin
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-51-365-0132
Fax: 380-51-362-1832
Unit | Reactor Model | Net Output | Initial Start | Status |
1 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 12/1982 | Operating |
2 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 12/1984 | Operating |
3 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 9/1989 | Operating |
4 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | Under Construction |
Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Station
Plant Manager: Danko Biley
Utility: Energoatom
Telephone No.: 380-61-393-2272
Fax: 380-61-393-6927
Unit | Reactor Model | Net Output | Initial Start | Status |
1 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 11/1984 | Operating |
2 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 6/1985 | Operating |
3 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 12/1986 | Operating |
4 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 12/1987 | Operating |
5 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 6/1989 | Operating |
6 | VVER-1000 | 950 MWe | 10/1995 | Operating |
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