20.09.2007 // Information Department of Leningrad NPP/Press service of Rosenergoatom

15 TV groups are covering complex emergency training at Leningrad NPP

The organizers of the complex emergency training at Leningrad NPP have invited journalists to cover the event.

15 TV groups are involved in the training. They represent almost all federal TV channels. There are also journalists from regional and local TV companies.

Over 50 journalists are covering the event.

They have visited the radiation monitoring stations, watched how firemen fought the fire and how rescuers saved victims. 

The head of the REA Emergency Response Group, REA technical director Nikolay Sorokin has met with the journalists to answer their questions.

He told them that the training at Leningrad NPP is the biggest emergency training that has ever been conducted at a Russian NPP. LNPP is the first to have used a full-scale simulator for training its personnel.

Sorokin informed the journalists that almost 7mln RUR has been spent on the organization and conduct of the training and as much as 90mln RUR on the preparation of the necessary base at LNPP.

The final press-conference is to take place today at 6:30 PM.

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.