In the village of Bolshiye Ugony, Lgovsky district, Kursk NPP Public Information Centre employees held a field presentation of the project ТAtomic Information Boards Р to the Libraries of Kursk NPP RegionУ. This special project has been being implemented since 2010. The events take place in the format of the meetings with readership attended by representatives of local government, school pupils, students and media.

The project is aimed at sharing of the detailed information about the plantХs activities, safety and reliability of the nuclear industry enterprises and industry development with residents of the closest to Kursk NPP regions, as well as attracting of young peopleХs attention to the nuclear industry and formation of confidence of the younger generation to it.     
The central rural library of Bolshiye Ugony village has become the fifteenth place visited by representatives of the Public Information Centre with the presentation of the ТAtomic Information BoardУ. The regional library named after Aseyev, large libraries of Kurchatov, Lgovsky, Rylsky and Octyabrsky districts already have such information boards.

The ТAtomic Information BoardУ placed on the special module with symbols of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC and Kursk NPP has more than 30 publications meant for the broad community and different age audience. This includes specialized educational literature, art books, which tell the history of Kursk NPP through the lives of people, and various educational brochures and booklets, including for children. Such publications as ТNuclear Power Plants of Russia. Semicentenary AnniversaryУ and ТNuclear Power Plants of RussiaУ will tell the readers on the history and present of the Concern Rosenergoatom and ten Russian nuclear power plants, which are a part of it. Readers can learn on the degree of Kursk nuclear power plantХs environmental impact from the environmental safety report of the enterprise, which is published annually. And the best proof that Kursk NPP is not only non-hazardous, but also has beneficial effects on the environment, is the unique encyclopedia ТBiological Variety of Technogenic Landscapes of Kursk NPPУ published in association with Kursk Central-Black Earth Biosphere Reserve named after V.V. Alekhin. This encyclopedia is popularly called as Тthe Red BookУ of Kursk NPP, because it includes rare representatives of flora and fauna living on the separate spit of the plantХs cooling pond. Readers may get the most recent news about the nuclear industry from the periodical publications ТFor the Peaceful AtomУ, ТRosatom CountryУ, ТRosenergoatomУ and ТThe Nuclear Industry NewsУ. No doubt, the books ТNPP Located at the Ancient SeimУ and ТKursk NPP Р My YouthУ of Valentin Gerasimenko (Kursk NPP chronographer), authorХs editions of the poet and nuclear power plantХs employee Yevgeny Latayev, ТThe Song of Kursk NPPУ of the writer Ivan Ziborov, collections ТThe Atom of ConfidenceУ, ТA Source of Light and HeatУ and many others, will decorate the library. 



At the presentation of the ТAtomic Information BoardУ in Bolshiye Ugony, representatives of Lgovsky district Administration, local government, management of the secondary school of Bolshiye Ugony, teachers, pupils and active readers of the rural library Р in total about 50 persons Р on that day received comprehensive information on the safety and reliability of the nuclear power plant. 

The bright, interesting presentation of the ТAtomic Information BoardУ fascinated the people attended the meeting. From their part, residents of Bolshiye Ugony gave back as good as one gets: the performance of local amateur artists accompanied by accordion subdued the guests from Kurchatov.

The readersХ meeting participants also were grateful to representatives of the clerisy Р Viktor Fesenko, poet and employee of Kursk NPP TAI shop, Ivan Ziborov, well-known Kurchatov poet and writer, and Lyubov Silina, member of the Veteran Council of Kursk NPP, who remarkably reads poems dedicated to Kursk nuclear power plant and Kurchatov satellite city. Their performances have become a real decoration of the presentation of the ТAtomic Information BoardУ.
 ТObjectivity, honesty and openness Р this to my opinion are the main components of the project ТAtomic Information Boards,У marked Chief of the Department of Organizational Work and Personnel Management of Lgovsky district Administration, Alexander Semenyakin. ТNow thanks to these publications, the objective data are available to people living near the nuclear power plant, and this is especially of high priority for our Lgovsky district. Accurate, proven, evidence-based information, which is contained in the publications about Kursk nuclear power plant and the nuclear industry, - this is what today is so necessary for all of us.У

Oksana Sotnikova, Acting Head of the Rural Council of Bolshiye Ugony, also agreed with the opinion of A. Semenyakin:
ТIХm very grateful to Kursk NPP for such a required gift. Now we will have an atomic information board too, where everyone will be able to quickly learn the most comprehensive information about the nuclear industry. Unfortunately, we know a lot from the Тword-of-mouth advertisingУ, and this ТinformationУ then acquires even more rumors. All honor to the enterprise, which not only generates power, provides our houses with heat and light, pays the lionХs share of taxes to the regional budget, but also enlightens.У  

Yelena Mamzina, Acting Director of Bolshiye Ugony secondary school, gave esteem to the project:
ТInformational transparency, safety and reliability of Kursk NPP Р these are three postulates, which we have learned from the todayХs event,У considers she. ТIХm personally impressed with openness, when the company strives to get the truth about its activities across to ordinary people. This once again says about the reliability, which, in its turn, shows stability and confidence.У 

Nikolay Cherkasov, resident of the village Bolshiye Ugony and history teacher, gratefully said about the ТAtomic Information BoardУ:

ТIХm just delighted from the todayХs presentation! And the selection of the name is quite precise and correct Р the ТAtomic Information BoardУ. As a teacher, I can say that for the career guidance of our school leavers, this could not have come at a better time: at the end of the presentation some senior high school students have already told me that they would be glad to become nuclear engineers. And this is worth its weight in gold. Thanks a lot to Kursk nuclear power plant for such a gift.У
ТEveryone knows that rural libraries, unfortunately, cannot boast of a rich fund. They are more deficient in the scientific and technical literature Р modern, interesting and readable one,У said the head of the Central Rural Library of Bolshiye Ugony named after Orest Duginov. ТAll this is gifted by our nuclear power plant, and we are thankful to it for all this. It is a noble gesture to contribute to promotion of awareness, education and even career guidance. I am happy, because now we have an opportunity to get acquainted with the work of the nuclear giant that is directly on the spot, and I can offer this wonderful literature to my readers.У

The final of the presentation of the ТAtomic Information BoardУ in Bolshiye Ugony was a tea-party, where the library readers and residents of the village, could closely interact with PIC representatives and Kurchatov poets, and ask them questions in the warm informal atmosphere. All the event participants received memorable gifts from Kursk NPP.

 At the present time, Kursk NPP operates the power units No.1, 2, 4. The units work at the capacity rated by the dispatch schedule. Unit 3 has been being under the scheduled thorough overhaul since September 1 of the current year.

The radiation background at the nuclear power plant and the adjacent territory corresponds to the level of power unitsХ normal operation and does not exceed the natural environmental values.

On line detailed data on the radiation environment near nuclear power plants in Russia and other nuclear facilities are provided on website russianatom.ru