Kursk 2

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Light Water Graphite Reactor (or LWGR)
Model	RBMK-1000
Owner	Joint Stock Company 'Concern Rosenergoatom'
Operator	Joint Stock Company 'Concern Rosenergoatom'

Timeline

Construction Start	Monday, 1 January 1973
First Criticality	Saturday, 16 December 1978
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 28 January 1979
Commercial Operation	Friday, 17 August 1979
Permanent Shutdown	Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Specifications

Capacity Net	925 MWe
Capacity Gross	1000 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3200 MWt
Design Net Capacity	925 MWe

Operational History

Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Energy Availability Factor (%)

Total Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Reactor History

Year	Reference Unit Power (MWe)	Annual Time Online (Hours)	Electricity Supplied (GWh)	Operation Factor (%)	Energy Availability Annual (%)	Energy Availability Cumulative (%)	Load Factor Annual (%)	Load Factor Cumulative (%)
1979	925	6734	3613.90	80.40	62.40	62.40	62.30	62.30
1980	925	7658	6404.32	87.20	78.40	74.40	78.80	74.70
1981	925	7874	6385.88	89.90	78.70	76.30	78.80	76.40
1982	925	6443	5875.79	73.60	71.10	74.70	72.50	75.30
1983	925	7104	5707.64	81.10	70.10	73.60	70.40	74.20
1984	925	7219	6326.50	82.20	77.10	74.30	77.90	74.80
1985	925	7598	6459.94	86.70	79.40	75.10	79.70	75.60
1986	925	6575	5617.31	75.10	69.10	74.30	69.30	74.80
1987	1000	7539	7196.69	86.10	83.30	75.40	82.20	75.70
1988	925	6609	5725.66	75.20	73.90	75.30	70.50	75.20
1989	925	6797	6164.20	77.60	74.90	75.20	76.10	75.20
1990	925	6874	4789.70	78.50	62.20	74.10	59.10	73.80
1991	925	7361	4375.96	84.00	55.30	72.60	54.00	72.20
1992	925	3552	2158.37	40.40	27.20	69.20	26.60	68.80
1993	925	7432	4438.15	84.80	57.10	68.40	54.80	67.80
1994	925	7385	4212.17	84.30	53.50	67.40	52.00	66.80
1995	925	7708	4745.36	88.00	59.80	66.90	58.60	66.30
1996	925	7099	4196.12	80.80	52.70	66.10	51.60	65.50
1997	925	7076	4354.28	80.80	54.90	65.50	53.70	64.80
1998	925	2805	1685.05	32.00	21.30	63.20	20.80	62.60
1999	925	6066	3708.09	69.20	46.80	62.40	45.80	61.80
2000	925	6211	3668.06	70.70	46.20	61.70	45.10	61.00
2001	925	7667	4768.15	87.50	60.10	61.60	58.80	60.90
2002	925	4770	3027.77	54.40	38.10	60.60	37.40	59.90
2003	925	5834	3756.24	66.60	46.40	60.00	46.40	59.30
2004	925	4318	3692.07	49.20	45.00	59.40	45.40	58.80
2005	925	7782	6896.62	88.80	84.70	60.40	85.10	59.80
2006	925	7320	6574.42	83.60	80.30	61.10	81.10	60.60
2007	925	6207	5728.65	70.90	69.50	61.40	70.70	60.90
2008	925	7351	6835.74	83.70	82.60	62.10	84.10	61.70
2009	925	6778	6428.15	77.40	76.60	62.60	79.30	62.30
2010	925	8076	7448.67	92.20	87.80	63.40	91.90	63.20
2011	925	6539	6368.67	74.60	75.30	63.80	78.60	63.70
2012	925	7802	7401.98	88.80	87.80	64.50	91.10	64.50
2013	925	1606	1584.36	18.30	18.20	63.10	19.60	63.20
2014	925	7011	6299.77	80.00	77.70	63.60	77.70	63.60
2015	925	7160	6556.20	81.70	79.40	64.00	80.90	64.10
2016	925	6425	5678.19	73.10	68.80	64.10	69.90	64.20
2017	925	6209	5437.61	70.90	66.10	64.20	67.10	64.30
2018	925	5689	4702.96	64.90	56.20	64.00	58.00	64.20
2019	925	5656	5207.62	64.60	62.00	63.90	64.30	64.20
2020	925	5945	5532.83	67.70	66.60	64.00	68.10	64.30
2021	925	6162	5567.70	70.30	68.30	64.10	68.70	64.40
2022	925	7651	7019.38	87.30	85.80	64.60	86.60	64.90