17.03.2011  Public Information Centre of Kola NPP

Rostekhnadzor Special-Purpose Inspection Has Been Started at Kola NPP

Since March 16, a special-purpose inspection of Federal Service on Ecologic, Technologic and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) Committee is being held at Kola NPP.

Rostekhnadzor specialists will check the nuclear plant activity on power units Nos. 1 and safety control, will study operation and plant documentation for compliance with the engineering documents, for enlisting the works on modernization accomplished into equipment certificates. The Committee will pay a special attention to the questions of maintenance, repair, reconstruction and modernization of the systems important for the plant safety.

According to Rostekhnadzor Chief State Inspector of Don Interregional Territorial Department Tatyana Yurikova, who headed the Committee work, the emphasis in the inspection organization will be put, first of all, on performance of the NPP scheduled works in full compliance with all the requirements, standards and rules in the field of nuclear power use.

The work of Rostekhnadzor Committee will finish on March 25 this year. According to its results Kola NPP will receive the opinion concerning the state of safety systems of the first stage power units.

Kola NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is located 200 km to the south of Murmansk on the bank of Lake Imandra. Power unit No.1 of Kola NPP was commissioned in 1973. Currently, the plant operates 4 power units with VVER-type reactors. Each reactor has capacity of 440 mW. Kola NPP supplies power for Murmansk region and Karelia.

Timely information about the radiation environment near Russian NPPs and other objects of the nuclear industry is available in the site www.russianatom.ru.


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