Kursk 1

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	Thursday, 1 June 1972
First Criticality	Monday, 25 October 1976
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 19 December 1976
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 12 October 1977
Permanent Shutdown	Sunday, 19 December 2021

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 (%)
1976	925	312	2.41	-	-	-	-	-
1977	925	6899	3644.87	85.90	79.10	79.10	71.40	71.40
1978	925	7573	5058.11	86.40	63.00	66.20	62.40	64.20
1979	925	7528	5930.25	85.90	73.10	69.30	73.20	68.20
1980	925	7669	6477.67	87.30	79.70	72.50	79.70	71.80
1981	925	7885	6132.76	90.00	76.40	73.40	75.70	72.70
1982	925	7788	7010.42	88.90	85.70	75.70	86.50	75.30
1983	925	7456	6720.27	85.10	82.20	76.80	82.90	76.50
1984	925	7369	6659.97	83.90	81.40	77.40	82.00	77.30
1985	925	7186	6346.78	82.00	76.80	77.30	78.30	77.40
1986	925	6598	5675.79	75.30	69.20	76.40	70.00	76.60
1987	1000	7407	7022.68	84.60	82.60	77.10	80.20	77.00
1988	925	7350	6637.98	83.70	81.80	77.50	81.70	77.40
1989	925	6582	5745.43	75.10	68.20	76.80	70.90	76.90
1990	925	6817	5090.51	77.80	65.70	75.90	62.80	75.80
1991	925	7038	4163.08	80.30	52.50	74.30	51.40	74.10
1992	925	6103	3669.24	69.50	46.20	72.50	45.20	72.20
1993	925	8145	4809.41	93.00	61.80	71.80	59.40	71.40
1994	925	2686	1560.59	30.70	19.80	68.80	19.30	68.40
1995	925	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	65.10	0.00	64.70
1996	925	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	61.70	0.00	61.40
1997	925	61	27.76	0.70	0.50	58.70	0.30	58.40
1998	925	7845	4508.63	89.60	57.40	58.60	55.60	58.20
1999	925	7464	4557.04	85.20	57.60	58.60	56.20	58.10
2000	925	5531	3449.69	63.00	43.60	57.90	42.50	57.50
2001	925	2042	1296.07	23.30	16.40	56.20	16.00	55.80
2002	925	3439	2462.70	39.30	30.80	55.20	30.40	54.80
2003	925	7262	6452.71	82.90	78.90	56.10	79.60	55.70
2004	925	7363	6601.33	83.80	81.10	57.00	81.20	56.60
2005	925	7651	6219.96	87.30	77.00	57.70	76.80	57.40
2006	925	7089	5837.69	80.90	72.20	58.20	72.00	57.80
2007	925	7670	6736.18	87.60	82.80	59.00	83.10	58.70
2008	925	7596	6464.58	86.50	81.40	59.80	79.60	59.40
2009	925	8068	7161.20	92.10	90.00	60.70	88.40	60.20
2010	925	5991	5640.73	68.40	69.50	61.00	69.60	60.50
2011	925	8620	7654.80	98.40	90.70	61.80	94.50	61.50
2012	925	6392	5988.71	72.80	71.20	62.10	73.70	61.90
2013	925	7217	6759.55	82.40	81.00	62.60	83.40	62.40
2014	925	6846	6277.53	78.10	75.20	62.90	77.50	62.80
2015	925	7482	6849.24	85.40	82.70	63.50	84.50	63.40
2016	925	6143	5293.85	69.90	65.60	63.50	65.20	63.50
2017	925	7504	6684.29	85.70	81.90	64.00	82.50	63.90
2018	925	5302	4685.45	60.50	57.60	63.80	57.80	63.80
2019	925	5889	5300.40	67.20	65.00	63.80	65.40	63.80
2020	925	5781	5208.97	65.80	63.70	63.80	64.10	63.80
2021	925	6814	5656.38	80.40	72.60	64.00	72.20	64.00