ST. PETERSBURG, September 20. /TASS/. Photos of the Kursk nuclear power plant (NPP) published by Ukrainian media confirm that Kiev has not abandoned its plans to strike the facility, Russian Foreign ...

Putin said on August 22 that Ukrainian forces have attempted to strike the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) since launching an incursion into the region on August 6. The following day, a source in ...

Russia’s main energy utility has published a draft plan for investment in energy over the next 18 years. This proposes the ...

By Michael Schwirtz On the day Ukraine launched its daring incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, the Federal Security Service, the Russian agency most responsible for protecting the border ...

Ukraine’s Kursk operation has, unfortunately, devolved into a fools’ errand — a glorified light-cavalry raid or medieval chevauchée that has diverted Ukrainian energies away from the center ...

He stressed that Kursk NPP was special. “These are RBMK-type reactors, which by their design do not have a protective shell, or containment, which other reactors have – structures that can withstand, ...

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi was able to see that the Kursk NPP Unit 3 continues to operate at its installed capacity, and Unit 4 has been on scheduled preventive maintenance. The design features of ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is visiting the Kursk nuclear power station, following Russian claims of an attack on the site last week.

International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi, who inspected the site outside the town of Kurchatov, said the reactor is ‘extremely exposed’ to attack. He said the RBMK-type ...

"The peculiarity of the Kursk NPP is that RBMK type reactors operate there. Due to their construction RBMKs have no protective layer or container many reactors of other types worldwide are equipped ...

and the Kursk II NPP, which is under construction. It said Grossi saw KNPP unit 3 continues to operate at its installed capacity, and the design features of RBMK reactors were demonstrated. They said ...

The RBMK technology operating in Kursk uses the same outdated Soviet design that exploded in Chernobyl. Unlike modern units, it doesn’t have the steel and concrete containment domes that back up ...