Operational failure
Nuclear Power Plant
Kursk — permanent reactor closure
19 December 2021
Kurchatov, Russia
Incident location
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51.6800, 35.6100
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What happened
Unit 1 permanently ceased commercial operation. This is a reactor closure, not a nuclear accident or an unplanned outage.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Current temperature
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- Latitude
- 51.6800°
- Longitude
- 35.6100°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.