Re: More on Slovak nuclear plant

[Emil <kerremba@pilot.msu.edu>]

Greetings,
...>           But on Saturday afternoon Mochovce's first reactor was
>              connected to Slovakia's electricity grid. The Slovak Tasr
>              news agency reported that the reactor was initially
>              operating at 20% of its 440 megawatt capacity.
> 
>              The Soviet-designed power station has been upgraded

"Chernobyl" type commercial RBMK-1000 has 1000(electrical) megawatt
Seeing from 440 megawatt it is indeed WWR-440 and was build most
probably
in fomer Chehoslovakia. This republic got a license to build WWR-440
when
Frm. SU started building WWR-1000. Both WWR-440 and WWR-1000 using
light water as a moderator and have negative termal-reactivity 
cofficient(relation) opposite to RBMK type. So it is a pretty safe
reactor-western equivalent of PWR type reactors.
Emil.
kerremba@pilot.msu.edu
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