title: Nuclear and Hydrotechnical Expertise Combined: Gidroproekt and the South Ukraine Energy Complex
abstract: This article investigates the juncture of hydropower and nuclear engineering traditions at the South Ukraine Energy Complex in the USSR from the late 1960s onwards.Engineers from the hydrotechnical design institute Gidroproekt played a key role in the envisioning, planning and realisation of this unique project.It combined a nuclear power plant and its cooling water reservoir with a pumped-storage hydropower plant and an accompanying run-of-river hydropower plant, allowing for potential synergie
journal: Europe Asia Studies