30.05.2008 // PR Group of St.Petersburg Atomenergoproekt

Leningrad NPP-2 project has been presented in Ukraine

A representative of St.Petersburg Atomenergoproekt (SPbAEP) has taken part in the international roundtable “Organizational-Methodological Aspects of the Siting and Feasibility Study of New NPP Projects: Problems and Prospects.”

The roundtable took place in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the initiative of Kharkiv Research and Development Institute “Energoproekt.” Representatives of the leading nuclear companies of Ukraine and Russia (Energoatom, Turboatom, Nizhniy Novgorod Atomenergoproekt, SPbAEP) and the nuclear supervisory authorities of Ukraine took part in the event.

The participants in the roundtable discussed problems concerning the research and development support of the program for the construction of new nuclear reactors in Ukraine and studied the experience of Russian nuclear companies. Particularly, the chief engineer of SPbAEP Ivan Grabelnikov made a reported on the Leningrad NPP-2 project based on the NPP-2006 new generation reactor. The audience showed keen interest in the project.

St.Petersburg Atomenergoproekt was established on Sept 1 1929. Since then the institute has built and launched over 90 power plants (thermal, nuclear, gas turbine power plants) with 439 turbine generators and a total capacity of 29.73mln KW. SPBAEP has designed 27 power plants with a total capacity of 14.976mln KWh in Poland, Vietnam, Cuba, Egypt, North Korea, Algeria, Croatia, Iraq, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, China, including 9 nuclear power plants with a total capacity of 9.55mln KWh.

Presently, the institute is designing the 4th unit (BN-800 (fast-breeder) reactor) for Beloyarsk NPP, machine compartment of the 1st unit of Bushehr NPP in Iran (WWER-1000 reactor), Leningrad NPP-2 (WWER-1200 reactors – here the institute acts as the general designer and general contractor), South-Western TPP in St.Petersburg. The institutes is also participating in the modernization and extension of the life of units of Kola, Beloyarks, Kursk, Smolensk, Leningrad NPPs and the reconstruction of TPP-15 of Lenenergo, Norilsk TPP and other thermal power plants in Russia.

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.