27.03.2008 // Press service of SPBAEP

St.Petersburg Atomenergoproekt has signed state contract for the construction of two units of Leningrad NPP-2

St.Petersburg Research and Development Institute “Atomenergoproekt” (SPbAEP) has signed state contract for the construction of two units of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant-2 (Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad region). The cost of the contract is 136bln RUR.

The director general of SPbAEP Leonid Resznikov says that his company got the contract due to well-substantiated favorable offer — the capacity of the plant can be raised from 1,170MW to 1,172MW, the plant may be launched for two months ahead of time without loss of quality — and, of course, due to its participation (as general designer) in the construction of analogous Tianwan NPP.

The deputy director general for economy and finance of SPbAEP Irina Katushkina says that the state contract was signed on Mar 14 2008 but the design work was started in 2006. “As a result, we finished the work in time. The project has been approved by the public and the State Inspection of Russia.”

The web-site of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Control (Rostekhnadzor) says that the service sees no obstacles to the construction of LNPP-2.

The first deputy director general-technical director of SPbAEP Anatoly Molchanov says that LNPP-2 is a kind of continuation of Tianwan NPP: “This project is based on the experience of Tianwan project. It has enhanced safety parameters and passive safety systems in additional to active safety systems used by Tianwan.”

Note

Since Apr 1 2002 Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant has been branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian State Concern for the Production of Electric and Thermal Power at Nuclear Power Plants” (“Rosenergoatom” Concern). The plant operates 4 units with RBMK reactors 1000 MW each.

The units of Leningrad NPP with their RBMK reactors were built in the early 1970s and are close to exhausting their resources: 1st unit in 2003, 2nd in 2005, 3rd in 2009 and 4th in 2011.

The Program for the Development of the Nuclear Power Industry of the Russian Federation in 1998–2005 and -2010 stipulates that the lives of the 1 st. 2nd and 3rd units of Leningrad NPP should be extended till 2008, 2010 and 2014, respectively.

The plant 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.

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.