MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Nuclear power plants (NPP) increased energy production from January-August of this year by 2.9% against the same period last year, the press-service of Rosenergoatom said Friday.
The NPPs produced a total of 94.915 billion kilowatts/hour in the first eight months of 2005 with 11.130 billion kilowatts/hour in August alone, 184 million kilowatts/hour more than had been planned.
The radiation background at the plants and neighboring territories complied with the normal exploitation of energy units and did not exceed natural figures.
Russia operates 10 nuclear power plants with 31 energy units with a total output of 23.2 gigawatts.
