Management of Rosenergoatom Concern checks up how Volgodonsk NPP is preparing for complex emergency response exercise

08.07.2008 // Information Department of Volgodonsk NPP/Press service of Rosenergoatom Concern

Inspectors of Rosenergoatom Concern have visited Volgodonsk NPP to check up how the plant is preparing for the Sept complex emergency response exercise

The deputy technical director for emergency planning of Rosenergoatom Concern Vladimir Khlebtsev and the head of the Civil Defense and Emergency Response Department of the Concern Pavel Plotnikov have visited Volgodonsk Nuclear Power Plant to check up how the plant is preparing for the Sept complex emergency response exercise.

The guests inspected the municipal emergency response center, one of the headquarters of the exercise. Presently, the center is being equipped with means of communications and other necessary systems. The existing equipment is being modernized.

The inspectors also visited the “scenes” of the exercise, the places where the trainees will respond to simulated emergencies.

While summing up the results of the inspection Khlebtsev said that Volgodonsk NPP realized the importance of the coming exercise and was making serious preparations for it. He said that the preparatory stage was important for testing modern equipment and methodologies.

It will be the first complex emergency response exercise at Volgodonsk NPP even though it has long become a tradition for Rosenergoatom Concern. The last exercise was conducted at Leningrad NPP in 2007 with experts from nine countries observing the event. Such exercises are an opportunity for Rosenergoatom Concern and its nuclear power plants to check up the efficiency of their emergency response systems and to improve their international with rescuers. The scenario of the Sept exercise will be made public before its start. For the moment Volgodonsk NPP is getting ready for any possible scenario.