UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WITH THE VK-300 REACTOR AS A SUBSTITUTING POWER SOURCE FOR ZHELEZNOGORSK, RUSSIA

摘要

Zheleznogorsk is situated near the territorial center - Krasnoyarsk on the Yenisei river. The town population in the year of 2000 will be approximately 102.0 thousand people, by 2010 - 115.0 thousand people. Mining and chemical complex is the main industrial enterprise of the town, which has been constructed for generation and used for isolation of weapons-grade plutonium. Heat supply to the chemical complex and town at the moment is largely provided by nuclear co-generation plant (NCGP) on the basis of the ADEh-2 dual-purpose reactor, generating 430 Gcal/h of heat and, partially, by coal backup peak-load boiler houses. NCGP also provides 73% of electric power consumed.