ABSTRACT
The Soviet thermal nuclear reactor power programme involves two reactor types which, until now, have been planned in roughly equal numbers. The first is the PWR for which a dedicated manufacturing facility has been built in the south of the Soviet Union at Volgadonsk. Problems in bringing this plant into production have reduced the rate of construction of the planned PWRs and resulted in a greater proportion of the other reactor type, the RBMK (Reactor Bolshoi Moschnosti Kipyashiy-Large Power Boiling Reactor). This is currently being built in two sizes, 1000 and 1500 MW respectively.
