19.09.2007 // Information Department of Leningrad NPP

The head of the Radiation Safety Department of STUK comments on the course of the complex emergency training at Leningrad NPP

The head of the Radiation Safety Department of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Authority of Finland Olli Vilkamo has commented on the course of the complex emergency training at Leningrad NPP:

“It is the third training I have observed in Russia. Such exercises are good for practicing emergency response actions. I am satisfied with what I have seen today. I think that your computer system is excellent: even in Moscow experts can watch what is going on at Leningrad NPP.”

Vilkamo pointed out that in the last years LNPP has made great progress in terms of safety. “You have made lots of technological improvements. And I am pleased to note that you have highly-qualified personnel.”

Experts from nine countries: Germany, Korea, Norway, the United States, Finland, France, Sweden, Ukraine and Armenia are observing the event.

France has sent the biggest delegation: four experts from the local nuclear authorities and Electricite de Fracne. Ukraine has sent three experts.

Germany is represented by experts from AREVA and ISaR, Finland by STUK and Loviisa NPP, the United States by the US General Consulate in St.Petersburg and Department of Energy.

Note

Leningrad NPP is situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea 80 km west of St.Petersburg.

Since Apr 1 2002 Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant has been the branch of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian State Concern for Production of Electric and Thermal Power at Nuclear Power Plants” (Rosenergoatom Concern).

The plant has four units with RBMK-1000 reactors with a total capacity of 4000 MW. It 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.

Leningrad NPP enjoys a large geography of international contacts: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the UK, Germany, Canada. The plant has received journalists and NGO representatives from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, France, SAR, Tunisia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Belgium, Argentina and Italy; consuls general of Japan, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands; a delegation of the Consulate General of the United States; energy ministers of Denmark and Canada; senators from France and the US; a delegation of the European Parliament; the IAEA Director General.