22.05.2008 // Directorate for Construction of Leningrad NPP-2

On May 21 the Directorate for Construction of Leningrad NPP-2 held a conference on improvement of construction safety systems

The head of the Special Safety Department of Rosenergoatom Concern V.Petrov, the deputy director general for safety of St.Petersburg Atomenergoproekt B.Vyazovoy, the first deputy director general of Escort-Center St.Petersburg A.Anokhin, the first director for physical safety of the Directorate for the Construction of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant-2 and representatives of sub-contractor organizations took part in the meeting.

Petrov said: “The key topic of the meeting was the problems related to the designing of physical protection systems and ways to solve them. Today, we have found common grounds with designers, have outlined our future tasks and will jointly work to carry them out.”

To remind, presently the constructors are carrying out preparatory work: over 500 people, 208 vehicles and 127 special machines are involved in the project.

Note

Since Apr 1 2002 Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant has been branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian State Concern for the Production of Electric and Thermal Power at Nuclear Power Plants” (“Rosenergoatom” Concern). The plant operates 4 units with RBMK reactors 1000 MW each.

The units of Leningrad NPP with their RBMK reactors were built in the early 1970s and are close to exhausting their resources: 1 st unit in 2003, 2nd in 2005, 3rd in 2009 and 4 th in 2011.

The Program for the Development of the Nuclear Power Industry of the Russian Federation in 1998–2005 and -2010 stipulates that the lives of the 1 st. 2nd and 3rd units of Leningrad NPP should be extended till 2008, 2010 and 2014, respectively.,

The plant employs 5,977 people: 5,635 industrial employees and 342 non-industrial employees and pays them 26,695 RUR a month: 27,306 RUR to industrial personnel and 11,380 RUR to non-industrial personnel.

The construction of LNPP-2 is part of the federal target program for the development of the energy industry of Russia 2007–2015 approved by the Government of the Russian Federation on Oct 5 2006.

On Aug 30 the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko and the governor of Leningrad region Valery Serdukov officially launched the LNPP-2 project.

On Sept 12 Rostekhnadzor granted licenses for deployment of the 1st and 2nd units of Leningrad NPP-2.

In 2008 the Government is planning to allocate 6bln RUR for the project. The total cost of the project is almost 70bln RUR.

The project was approved by the public and is presently being considered by the Chief State Inspection.

The project is analogous to the units built by Russian specialists at Tianwan NPP in China – WWER-1000.

The 1st unit is to be launched in 2013.