Ukraine starts up 1GW reactor at Rivne

Kiev (Platts)--11Oct2004

Ukraine's third-largest nuclear power plant, Rivne NPP, has put a large new
nuclear reactor in operation Sunday, state nuclear power generating giant
EnergoAtom said Monday. The new reactor is currently working at 15% capacity,
but will be hit 100% by March 2005, the company said. The 1,000 MW reactor
number 4 at Rivne NPP is the second reactor commissioned by Ukraine over the
past two months as it seeks to boost power generation and exports. EnergoAtom,
Ukraine's biggest electricity producer, commissioned the similar 1,000 MW
reactor number 2 at Khmelnytskiy NPP in August. The company now operates 15
nuclear power reactors with total capacity of 13,835 MW. EnergoAtom, which
produced 81.47-bil kWh of electricity in 2003, plans to boost power output to
84-bil kWh in 2004 and to about 100-bil kWh in 2005.

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