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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power Plants in Eastern Europe
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.055935.8187@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:59:35 GMT
- References: <20100@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- In article <20100@mindlink.bc.ca> Desiree_Bradley@mindlink.bc.ca (Desiree Bradley) writes:
- >The people in eastern Europe probably do not have easy choices.
- >east of Poland burn that coal, or coal like it, they do have a problem.
- >However, Chernobyl's design and poor safety record hardly inspires confidence
- >in eastern European nuclear power plants. And then there are those others
- >similarly designed and operated.
- >However, as far as I know, there are no nuclear power plants in Poland.
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- As a side note, these are the current operating plants in eastern European
- and Unified countries: (Nuclear News, Feb 1992)
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- * units are electricity producers, and greater than 30 MWe.
- * LGRs are liguid-cooled, graphite-moderated
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- Nation # units Net MWe
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- Bulgaria 6 3538 All PWRs
- Czecho-Slovakia 8 3264 All PWRs
- Germany (kinda) 21 22408 7 BWRs, rest are PWRs
- Hungary 4 1695 All PWRs
- Kazakhstan 1 135 LMFBR, also a desalination plant
- Lithuania 2 2760 LGRs
- Russia 24 17751 1 LMFBR, rest are PWRs and LGRs
- Ukraine 15 13020 3 LGRs, rest are PWRs
- Yugoslavia 1 620 PWR
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- Tino
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