On April 10, 2011 power unit No.1 of Rostov NPP was shut down for 55 days of scheduled preventive maintenance in accordance with the “Schedule for Repair of Russian Nuclear Power Units in 2011”, approved by the authorities of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSV.

Within the framework of SPM-2011 preventive maintenance will be implemented in reactor and turbine compartments of the nuclear power plant. Specialists will replace nuclear fuel and perform protective treatment and inspection of the unit equipment as well as remanufacturing operations. Observers-controllers, chosen from highly qualified specialists of NPP subdivisions, will monitor the quality of work performance at each stage.

The main objective facing the maintenance personnel is to implement the SPM in due time, with high quality of works and compliance with all safety rules and regulations. A repair headquarters under the leadership of Chief Engineer of the plant Andrey Salnikov was established in order to implement this objective successfully.

The works involved in internal maintenance personnel - 408 people and the staff of contracting organization - 1,511 people. All contracting organizations, engaged in SPM, have licenses of Russian Gosatomnadzor for the right to perform these works.

In order to perform a successful SPM-2011, special attention will be paid to the target values of Rosatom production system, which contributes to optimizing of the working time loss during equipment repair as well as to implementation of the major overhaul within 50 days.