07.07.2008 // Directorate for Construction of Leningrad NPP-2

20 complex labor protection inspections were carried out at the construction site of Leningrad NPP-2 in Jan-June 2008

The head of Labor Protection Department of the Directorate for the Construction of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant-2 S.Pomogov says that most of the deficiencies detected during the inspections have already been eliminated.

In May-June 2008 the Directorate for the Construction of Leningrad NPP-2 conducted a complex labor protection inspection of its divisions as well as a Labor Protection Day.

Presently, the Directorate is forming its own Labor Protection department. By the end of this year it is planning to redouble the staff of the department.

545 people, 200 vehicles and 107 special systems are involved in the construction of the 1st unit and the preparatory stage of the construction of the 2nd unit of Leningrad NPP. Six contractor organizations are working three shift, two organizations – two shift.

Note

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.

On June 24 Rostekhnadzor granted Rosenergoatom Concern a license for construction of 1st unit of Leningrad NPP-2.

The general contractor of the project is St.Petersburg Atomenergoproekt. The company 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.