Kursk Nuclear Power Plant

It is located on the bank of the Seym River about 40 kilometers west of the city of Kursk, midway between it and the town of Lgov, in western Russia.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General Rafael Grossi urged both Russia and Ukraine to exercise "maximum restraint" to avoid an accident at the plant during the August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion following reports of "significant military activity" near the facility.

The plant was intended to supply the growing energy demands of the quickly developing industrial complex of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (Stary-Oskol and Mikhaylovsk ore mining and processing factories and other manufacturing companies).

Its key consumer is the ECO Center energy system covering 19 regions of the Central Federal District.

Kursk NPP produces 52% of the total output of all electric power plants of Chernozemye (Black Earth Belt).

It is the key energy supplier of Central Chernozemye, a region that produces 48% of iron ore, 13.5% of steel, 19% of ferrous metals, 9.6% of meat, 19.5% of sugar in Russia.

[2] The development of that region is largely credited to the Kursk NPP as it provides power and a stable source of both employment and income for the communities around it.

Civil construction of Kursk II began in 2017 with the excavation of an estimated 1.2 million cubic meters of soil, as part of the work for the two new units.

More than 16,000m³ of self-compacting concrete mix was proposed to be laid in the foundation slab of the reactor building, and the works were expected to be completed by June 2018.

In January 2023, the 235-tonne steel dome was set on the unit 1 containment building, where it will serve as a key barrier between the reactor and the environment.

[8] The two 3+ generation reactors of Kursk NPP II will be the pilot units of the VVER-TOI project and include a turbine plant featuring a low-speed turbine-generator, manufactured by Power Machines PJSC.