There may be problems: "Rosatom" wants to stop the Kursk NPP against the background of the Armed Forces Operation

The Kursk NPP, although it is outdated, provides electricity to 90% of industrial enterprises in Kursk region. The work of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) can be stopped due to a long operation of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region. Alexei Likhachev, the head of Rosatom, reported the Moscow Times. "This option was considered. We analyzed it," he said in the fields of the Eastern Economic Forum, which is taking place in Vladivostok.

Likhachev added that the decision to stop the station has not been made now because it is extremely important for the region. "The Kursk NPP is very important, it plays an important role in the energy supply of the whole region, it is extremely important now. Of the four blocks, one works. So far, we believe that the safety measures taken are enough," Rosatoma said. It is known that the Kursk NPP is the most important node of the Unified energy system of Russia.

The proportion of the Kursk Nuclear Station in the installed capacity of all black earth power plants is 35%. It provides electricity to 90% of industrial enterprises of Kursk region. At the same time, Volodymyr Omelchenko, Director of the Razumkov Center's Energy Programs, believes that Kursk NPP stops will have a temporary effect. He explained that the station nourishes two mining pools and one metallurgical plant.

In the case of stopping the power units there may be problems: it will take time to adjust alternative electricity supply schemes. But in general, the energy system of the Russian Federation does not feel the consequences of shutdown. After all, as Omelchenko noted, in Russia there is no shortage of generation unlike Ukraine, in which the deficit arose due to shelling of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

"They generally have a generation capacity about about 250 GW, and therefore the loss of 2 GW is less than 1%. This will not have any critical consequences," Omelchenko said. We will remind, earlier Focus wrote about what is happening in Kurchatov, the city where Kursk NPP is located. Free entry is closed to the city, and the Russian army soldiers were located at a local school.