20.09.2007 // Information Department of Leningrad NPP

Foreign experts comment on emergency training at Leningrad NPP

Representative of Electricite de France

Such events are always impressive. I would like to say that your personnel are very well trained and your equipment is ready for such situations. I am impressed to see that you are conducting such a large-scale event for training your personnel. All the members of the Emergency Response Group seem to be eager to improve their actions.

Representative of ISaR (Germany)

Our colleagues from Leningrad NPP are well trained and prepared for such situations. They are working very professionally and they have very modern equipment.

What we have seen today is very impressive. We are really amazed to see what our colleagues from LNPP can and have. I hope that they will never face such situations in real life. I am satisfied with all I have seen here.

Representative of Nuclear Safety Institute of Korea

We in Korea also conduct such events and have come to compare. Naturally, we would also like to acquire your positive experience. But our key task is cooperation between South Korea and Russia.

I don’t think that I can teach the Russians anything. I have come here to learn from them. I hope next time you will come to Korea and we will show you our positive experience in conducting such trainings.

To remind, representatives of nines states: Germany, Korea, Norway, the United States, Finland, France, Sweden, Ukraine and Armenia are observing the training.

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.