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VVER: Soviet / Russian nuclear reactor type
The water-water energetic reactor (WWER), or VVER is a series of pressurized water reactor designs originally developed in the Soviet Union, and now Russia, by OKB Gidropress. The idea of such a reactor was proposed at the Kurchatov Institute by Savely Moiseevich Feinberg. VVER were originally developed before the 1970s, and have been continually updated. They were one of the initial reactors developed by the USSR, the other being the infamous RBMK. As a result, the name VVER is associated with a wide variety of reactor designs spanning from generation I reactors to modern generation III+ reactor designs. Power output ranges from 70 to 1300 MWe, with designs of up to 1700 MWe in development. The first prototype VVER-210 was built at the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant.

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VIDEO: Wildfires CIRCLE Turkey’s Akkuyu Nuclear Plant As Drought Rages | Russian Crews Battle Flames [Video]

VIDEO: Wildfires CIRCLE Turkey’s Akkuyu Nuclear Plant As Drought Rages | Russian Crews Battle Flames

Wildfires have encircled Turkey’s first nuclear reactor site—the Akkuyu plant in Mersin Province—driven by a brutal drought and heatwave. Russian and Turkish firefighting aircraft, including..

Credit: Oneindia     Duration: 03:41Published

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