OREANDA-NEWS. September 10, 2009.  In Jan-Aug 2009 the nuclear power plants of Energoatom Concern OJSC generated over 104bln KWh and fully met the demand of their consumers.

The NPPs with WWER reactors produced 55.054bln KWh, the NPPs with RBMK, BN and EGP reactors – 49.270bln KWh.

The capacity factor made up 77%.

In Jan-Aug 2009 the Russian nuclear power plants operated safely and efficiently with no single above “0” INES event registered during the period.

The 10 nuclear power plants of Russia operate 31 reactors with a total capacity of 23,242MW: 15 WWER reactors (9 WWER-1000, 6 WWER-440), 15 RBMK reactors (11 RBMK-1000 and 4 EGP-6), 1 fast-breeder reactor. The Russian NPPs produce 16% of total energy in Russia.