Construction of Nizhny Novgorod nuclear plant moved back to 2031-2035
NIZHNY NOVGOROD. June 20 (Interfax) - Construction of the Nizhny Novgorod nuclear power plant has been moved back to 2031-2035, according to an attachment to the general scheme for deploying power facilities to 2035 published on the government's website.
The Nizhny Novogorod nuclear power plant in Monakovo is now planned for construction in 2031-2035, according to the list of existing nuclear power plants and those planned for construction, upgrade, modernization and de-commissioning. The plant is slated to have capacity to generate 2,510 megawatts from two VVER-TOI blocks in 2035.
The government approved the new general scheme in a June 9, 2017 instruction. The previous general scheme for deploying electricity facilities ran until 2020.
It was reported earlier that at the beginning of November 2011, the Russian prime minister signed an instruction on construction of the Nizhny Novgorod plant with two blocks, each with at least 1,150 MW of capacity, in 2019 and 2021. Later, the dates for commissioning the two blocks were moved back to 2023 and 2025 respectively. The postponement was due to "the Rosatom state corporation having insufficient resources to build such a large number of nuclear power plants simultaneously."
The site of the Nizhny Novgorod nuclear power plant will be located one kilometer west of Monakovo in Nizhny Novgorod region's Navashinsky district, near the Murom-Nizhny Novogorod highway. The plant is scheduled to be the first utilizing the state-of-the-art VVER-TOI design.