The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has approved the postponement of new nuclear power plants at Rosatom's request. The Russian nuclear development company has postponed by one year the commissioning of the first and second units at its Leningrad II project (from 2015 and 2017 to 2016 and 2018) and that of the second unit at Novovoronezh II (from 2018 to 2019), while the construction of the Smolensk II project will be delayed by five years, from 2022-2024 to 2027-2029.
Four 1,200 MW AES-2006 reactors are planned to be commissioned on the site of the existing Leningrad nuclear power plant (to be withdrawn from service in 2018), with the first two units of the expansion phase already under construction and initially expected in late 2015 and 2017. They should now be commissioned in 2016 and 2018. Units 3 and 4 were planned for 2020 and 2021 but are likely to be delayed too.
At Novovoronezh, two 1,200 MW units are under construction (Novovoronezh II or units 6 and 7); preparations for first criticality started in February 2015 for the first unit (expected in 2015), while the second unit was expected to be commissioned in February 2018 (now delayed to 2019).
Finally, the Smolensk II project, consisting of two to four VVER-1200 reactors (1,200 MW each), was expected to enter construction in 2017 with the first unit commissioned in 2022 and the second in 2024. The units are now expected in 2027 and 2029 at the earliest.
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