Owners
The purpose of construction Kurskaya NPP-2 is to replace power units No. 1 and No. 2 of the Kursk NPP after the end of their service life.
History
2025: First Power Unit Launch
Launch operations began at the first power unit of the Kursk nuclear power plant under construction - 2 (Kurskaya AES-2). This was announced on December 28, 2025 by the general director of the state corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev.
The construction of the Kurskaya AES-2 is provided for by the document "Scheme of territorial planning of the Russian Federation in the field of power," which the Government of the Russian Federation approved in November 2013. The project is implemented in order to replace power units No. 1 and No. 2 of the Kursk NPP after the end of their service life. In total, the new nuclear power plant will include four power units: the first two are planned to be commissioned in 2026-2027, and the other two in 2034-2035.
As part of the Kurskaya AES-2, new VVER-TOI reactors (water-water power reactor - a typical optimized informatized generation III +) with a capacity of 1255 MW each will be involved. At the same time, experts estimate the cost of the first two power units at 350 billion rubles. It is assumed that the station will provide the adjacent regions with electricity until the end of 2100.
| Heroic work was done by our comrades in the Kursk region, where launch operations began at the new power unit [Kursk NPP-2], Likhachev said. |
The design of the NPP under construction, as noted on the website of Concern Rosenergoatom JSC, meets both the requirements of the Russian Federation and all modern international requirements in the field of nuclear power safety. It uses four active channels of safety systems (duplicating each other), a melt containment device, a passive heat removal system from under the reactor shell and a passive heat removal system from steam generators. The main socio-economic effect of the NPP construction is to reduce the risks of energy shortages in the region.[1]
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