Bohunice NPP, Slovakia (Czechoslovakia)
At the A-1 Bohunice NPP in Western Slovakia, which was put into operation at the end of 1972, a KS-150 heavy-water channel reactor with a gas coolant was installed. The technical design of the reactor plant was developed by the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics named after. A.I. Alikhanov, who provided scientific leadership throughout the entire construction period.
NPP A-1 Bohunice is the only nuclear power plant, the working design .. Read more »of which was developed by Czechoslovak organizations (OKB of the Skoda plant, Pilsen) with technical assistance from the Leningrad branch of Teploelektrooproekt . Almost all the equipment was designed and manufactured by Czechoslovak specialists.
The Czechoslovak side fully fulfilled its obligations under the intergovernmental agreement related to the development of heavy water in reactor building. However, this direction was not developed, since a power plant with a heavy water reactor was technologically extremely complex and could not be used for the serial construction of industrial nuclear power plants.
A-1 Bohunice NPP was shut down in 1977.
Subsequently, a large scientific -technical center of the nuclear industry of Czechoslovakia, which then included the Institute of Nuclear Power Plant Operation (VUJE), NPP B-1 and B-2 Bohunice, as well as a training center for personnel training.
Czechoslovakia became the third CMEA country (after the GDR and Bulgaria), began the development of nuclear energy on an industrial scale. In 1972, a decision was made on the further development of nuclear energy in Czechoslovakia on the basis of pressurized water reactors, which were expected to form the basis of the country's nuclear energy for 15-20 years.
The first result of the implementation of this program was the construction of the second nuclear power plant - B- 1 “Bohunice” – on the site next to the first nuclear power plant. Construction work began in February 19
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