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Asbest Destination Guide

Discover Asbest in Russia

Asbest in the region of Sverdlovsk with its 74,583 habitants is a town located in Russia - some 911 mi or ( 1467 km ) East of Moscow , the country's capital .

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Local time in Asbest is now 11:03 PM (Saturday) . The local timezone is named " Asia/Yekaterinburg " with a UTC offset of 6 hours. Depending on your flexibility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Trud Otdykh, Shameyskiy, Rezhik, Mokrinskiy, and Malysheva. When in this area, you might want to check out Trud Otdykh . Are you looking for some initial hints on what might be interesting in Asbest ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.

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Interesting facts about this location

BN-600 reactor

The BN-600 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Designed to generate electrical power of 600 MW in total, the plant dispatches 560 MW to the Middle Urals power grid. It has been in operation since 1980. The plant is a pool-type reactor, where the reactor, coolant pumps, intermediate heat exchangers and associated piping are all located in a common liquid sodium pool.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at 56.84 61.32 (Lat./Long.); Less than 20 km away
Tags: Liquid metal fast reactors, Nuclear power stations built in the Soviet Union, Nuclear power stations in Russia, Science and technology in the Soviet Union, Soviet inventions

Historical Weather

temperature and rainfall during the year in Asbest

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