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The South Coast of the Gulf of Finland |
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| Natural Values and Harmful Installations |
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Concept of a decommission plan for old nuclear power reactors |
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| Guiding Principles from Environmental NGOs |
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The South Coast of the Gulf of Finland |
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| Natural Values and Harmful Installations |
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Concept of a decommission plan for old nuclear power reactors |
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| Guiding Principles from Environmental NGOs |
It has been 10 years since the decision to decommission the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP). Two of the most powerful, but not the oldest, of the energy blocs of the Chernobyl series (RBMK-1500) total capacity 3.000 MW were stopped in the last days of 2004 and in 2009, and became the first to have taken the path of decommissioning.
A combination of past nuclear accidents and the accumulation of wastes from more than six decades of nuclear activities at the site have made the area surrounding Mayak one of the most contaminated in the world, with significant concentrations of strontium, cesium and plutonium found within a 100-kilometer — or 60-mile — radius of the facility.
On 31 December 2009 at 23.00 Victor Shevaldin, Director of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) will give the command to turn off the second and last energy bloc with reactor type RBMK-1500 with a power of 1500 MW. In this way, a NPP with the two largest-in-the-world energy blocs of Chernobyl-type will forever stop generating electricity.