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Soviet Nuclear Power Plant Designs

This page contains plant-specific information for Soviet-designed nuclear power plants (see Ignalina RBMK-1500 Plant Source Book as an example) gathered from available resources including:

	DOE International Nuclear Safety Program,
	Nuclear Energy Institute Source Book on Soviet-Designed Nuclear Power Plants (see "other sources and databases"),
	IAEA Databanks,
	Published Papers/Articles, and
	Russian Design and Construction Ministries and Research Institutes.

More than 75 commercial nuclear reactors of Soviet design are operating, planned, or under construction in the ex-Soviet republics of Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania, as well as in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Cuba, and Finland. With the exception of small nuclear units used for district steam heating, Soviet-designed commercial nuclear power plants are variations on three basic designs:

	the VVERs, or pressurized light water reactors,
	the RBMKs, Chernobyl-type graphite-moderated boiling water reactors, and
	the BN series small fast-breeder reactors.

See also: Maps of Reactor Sites