Baltic NPP


 * For successfully campaigning against the Baltic NPP the environmental organization Ecodefense has been punished on June 16, 2014 by being declared a "Foreign Agent".
 * The construction works at the NPP site stopped, construction has been cancelled on March 28th, 2014.
 * situated at Kaliningrad enclave, Russia
 * 120 km from Kalinigrad, 60 km from Kurshsky gulf, 12 km east- west from Neman
 * 120 km from Kalinigrad
 * new NPP planned / under construction


 * an international anti-nuclear conference focusing on the new NPP construction plans of Lithuania, Belarus and Kaliningrad (Russia) took place in Vilnius (LT) on December 6-8, 2011


 * ideas of a sea cable to export the Baltic NPP electricity to Germany German

Media coverage

 * 12-06-2013 Russia freezes the construction of the nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad
 * 24/06-2013 ANALYSIS: Rosatom head Kiriyenko on foundering Baltic NPP: We understand what we were aiming at
 * 12-06-2013 Russia freezes the construction of the nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad
 * 04/06-2013 URGENT: Leaked mothballing order confirms CPR stopped on long-suffering Baltic NPP – Rosatom website counters in own version
 * 30/05-2013 Baltic NPP debacle: Construction reported halted, possibly mothballed
 * 28/05-2013 COMMENT: A dream cut short: Europe snubs Russia’s ‘do-gooder’ plan to flush it with dirt-cheap energy from Baltic reactors
 * 22/04-2013 COMMENT: Baltic NPP project still struggling to secure investors, future selling markets


 * media release: Residents oppose nuclear plant near Kaliningrad - opinion poll and update (May 31, 2013)
 * Russischer Umweltschützer zu geplantem AKW Kaliningrad German

30.05.2013 Baltic NPP debacle: Construction reported halted, possibly mothballed

 * 31. 05.2013 Russian Baltic nuclear power plant debacle- Shut down for good?

….Rosatom’s search in the past three years for partners in Europe has failed to deliver either future energy buyers or potential shareholders willing to pledge funds to the project – a first in which the Russian nuclear industry has made 49% equity available to a foreign investor….

Baltic NPP debacle: Construction reported halted, possibly mothballed

A KLT-40C reactor plant. Afrikantov OKBM has developed these 40-megawatt reactors for use on board of floating nuclear power plants. Rosatom now considers operating one at the site of the beleaguered Baltic NPP project – a baffling idea that will likely relegate the currently 2,300-megawatt design, and possibly the entire construction, to the annals of failed projects of the nuclear industry

Source: okbm.nnov.ru

Further information resources

 * Nuclear plant near Kaliningrad – bad story that must be ended immediately
 * Nuclear Site Kaliningrad in flexRISK
 * Status of proposed nuclear plants in the Baltic Sea region as of August 29, 2012 :
 * Baltic 1:
 * proposed construction start: 2012
 * proposed operation begin: 2016
 * Baltic 2:
 * proposed construction start: 2014
 * proposed operation begin: 2018