COMMISSIONING UNIT-4 OF THE BALACHOVO NUC LEAR-POWER STATION

When unit 4 Of the Russian Balachovo Nuclear Power Station, equipped w ith a type VVER-1000 pressurized Water reactor, was commissioned in Ma rch 1993, delegations from Biblis were present a, consultants. The saf ety design of the reactor is based largely on West European criteria. Commissioning was supervised by a state commission. The Commissioning procedure included functioning and startup tests of the subsystems of the Plant. tests of the containment strength, revisions Of components and systems, and a physical and an energetic startup. Experiments perf ormed after first critically had been reached demonstrated that perfor mance data were in line with project requirements.