Operational failure

Nuclear Power Plant

Leningrad — permanent reactor closure

10 November 2020

Sosnovy Bor, Russia

59.8500, 29.0600

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No radiological release

What happened

Unit 2 permanently ceased commercial operation. This is a reactor closure, not a nuclear accident or an unplanned outage.

When cited sources give different casualty, damage or spill figures for this event, they’re reported side by side above rather than merged into one number. See how confidence levels work.

Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Nuclear Power Plant
Current temperature
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Latitude
59.8500°
Longitude
29.0600°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. PRIS permanent-shutdown reactor databaseInternational Atomic Energy Agency · Incident reporting