OREANDA-NEWS. The power unit №3 of the Kursk NPP capacity was reduced to 50% by the request, agreed with the Joint Center for dispatching of power systems and the operating organization JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom", on January 7, 2015 at 17:00 MSK.

The power unit was reduced for further analysis of working mode mode of the gas circuit and installation of helium purification.

The Kursk NPP has power units №№ 1, 2, 3, 4 in work at the moment. They work with capacity, established by the dispatch schedule.

The radiation background is at level, that corresponds to the normal operation of power units and does not exceed natural background values, at the Kursk NPP and in the area of its location.

The Kursk NPP, as part of the "Rosenergoatom Concern", is included into the electricity division of the State Corporation "Rosatom". The station is located 40 km south-west of the city Kursk on the left bank of Seym. The NPP has four operating units with RBMK RBMK-1000 reactors with total capacity of 4 million KW of electricity. Power units were connected to the unified energy system of the country in 1976, 1979, 1983 and 1985. All existing power units had technical modernization in 1994-2009. The Kursk NPP is the largest power generating source in the Central Russian Chernozem.