Kursk 4

Operable

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	Friday, 1 May 1981
First Criticality	Thursday, 31 October 1985
First Grid Connection	Monday, 2 December 1985
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 5 February 1986

Specifications

Capacity Net	925 MWe
Capacity Gross	1000 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3200 MWt
Design Net Capacity	925 MWe

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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 (%)
1985	925	528	173.98	-	-	-	-	-
1986	925	7574	6328.54	88.10	80.40	80.40	80.30	80.30
1987	1000	6704	6167.68	76.50	72.30	76.00	70.40	74.90
1988	925	7390	6653.03	84.10	81.70	77.90	81.90	77.30
1989	925	6954	6131.81	79.40	76.00	77.40	75.70	76.90
1990	925	6922	6050.02	79.00	73.60	76.70	74.70	76.40
1991	925	8469	7356.07	96.70	90.30	78.90	90.80	78.80
1992	925	7324	6117.37	83.40	75.40	78.40	75.30	78.30
1993	925	6439	5638.27	73.50	71.00	77.50	69.60	77.20
1994	925	6255	5369.44	71.40	67.00	76.30	66.30	76.00
1995	925	7001	6207.48	79.90	77.00	76.40	76.60	76.10
1996	925	7373	6590.19	83.90	80.20	76.80	81.10	76.50
1997	925	6664	5971.68	76.10	73.00	76.40	73.70	76.30
1998	925	7751	6641.43	88.50	82.30	76.90	82.00	76.70
1999	925	6595	5895.38	75.30	72.80	76.60	72.80	76.40
2000	925	7423	6778.77	84.50	82.80	77.00	83.40	76.90
2001	925	7281	6671.63	83.10	81.50	77.30	82.30	77.20
2002	925	6094	5530.98	69.60	67.60	76.70	68.30	76.70
2003	925	6802	6233.39	77.60	75.80	76.70	76.90	76.70
2004	925	6005	5422.93	68.40	66.70	76.20	66.70	76.20
2005	925	7858	7081.14	89.70	87.20	76.70	87.40	76.80
2006	925	4115	3636.44	47.00	44.20	75.20	44.90	75.20
2007	925	8298	7426.50	94.70	91.20	75.90	91.60	76.00
2008	925	6580	6052.40	74.90	73.90	75.80	74.50	75.90
2009	925	4786	4184.28	54.60	52.30	74.80	51.60	74.90
2010	925	8109	7557.08	92.60	91.30	75.50	93.30	75.60
2011	925	5729	5500.69	65.40	64.50	75.10	67.90	75.40
2012	925	8144	7470.41	92.70	89.20	75.60	91.90	76.00
2013	925	6807	6213.89	77.70	74.30	75.50	76.70	76.00
2014	925	8201	7517.80	93.60	89.70	76.00	92.80	76.60
2015	925	7348	6745.34	83.90	81.20	76.20	83.20	76.80
2016	925	8055	7420.59	91.70	88.70	76.60	91.30	77.30
2017	925	7471	6940.86	85.30	83.60	76.80	85.70	77.50
2018	925	7645	7117.30	87.30	86.00	77.10	87.80	77.80
2019	925	7095	6538.38	81.00	79.40	77.20	80.70	77.90
2020	925	7991	7277.83	91.00	88.60	77.50	89.60	78.20
2021	925	6865	6292.87	78.40	76.90	77.50	77.70	78.20
2022	925	6628	5672.23	75.70	68.20	77.20	70.00	78.00
2023	925	7417	6760.71	84.70	81.60	77.30	83.40	78.20