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18 January 2007 - Leningrad nuclear power station [LAES] will start modernizing its No 3 power unit in order to extend its service life beyond 2009, when it is due to expire.
Specialists will also start drawing up plans to extend the service life of the No 4 power unit, whose planned service life of 30 years expires in 2011. All the units at the LAES are being modernized in order to keep them in service until replacement capacity is installed.
There are plans to build a unit with a 1500-MW pressurized water reactor (VVER-1500). Currently the station operates RBMK reactors of the "Chernobyl type". The service life of the No 1 power unit at the LAES was extended for 15 years in 2004, and in 2006 similar work was completed on the No 2 unit.
The LAES's information centre told ITAR-TASS today that this year it is planned to carry out a routine overhaul of the station's No 1 power unit, to complete a stage in the modernization of the No 2 unit, to complete a major overhaul of the No 4 unit, and to commission a complex for the storage and processing of radioactive waste.
The LAES generated 23.18bn kWh in 2006. There were no incidents with radiation consequences. The station's planned target for 2007 is 21.2bn kWh.
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