OREANDA-NEWS. According to the press-service of Rosenergoatom Concern, the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Control (Rostekhnadzor) has finished examining Rosenergoatom’s licensing application and has provided the Concern with licenses for building units 1 and 2 of Leningrad NPP-2 and unit 4 of Kalinin NPP.  The licensed units are to be built in the framework of the Federal Target Program for the Development of the Nuclear Power Industry of Russia in 2007–2010 and 2015, approved of by the Government of the Russian Federation Oct 6, 2006.

To remind, LNPP-2 is supposed to replace the existing units of Leningrad NPP.

On Aug 30 2007, the speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov, the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko and the governor of Leninrad region Valery Serdukov gave an official start to the project.

Note:

Since Apr 1 2002 Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant has been the branch of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian State Concern for Production of Electric and Thermal Power at Nuclear Power Plants” (Rosenergoatom Concern).

The plant has four units with RBMK-1000 reactors with a total capacity of 4000 MW. In 2006 the plant produced 23.178bn KWh.

Presently, the life of unit 1 has been extended for 15 years, the life of unit 2 — for 5 years (after modernization it will be given 15 years more). The service deadline for units 3 and 4 is 2009 and 2011, respectively. Their lives can be extended for 20 years.