11.10.2017  KOLSK NPP INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS ADMINISTRATION

Kola NPP: the WANO international experts confirmed a high level of the Plant’s safety culture

The WANO technical support mission on the topic of Safety Culture was held at Kola NPP. Experts from Spain, Great Britain, representatives of the WANO Moscow Center, employees of Leningrad NPP, Hinckley Point NPP (United Kingdom), Borsel NPP (Netherlands), SRC “Prognoz”, and representatives of the decommissioned nuclear power plant located on the territory of the largest in Great Britain nuclear complex Sellafield.

The head of the expert team, Konrad Dyube, during the greeting noted that the issues of safety culture directly affect the work of nuclear power plants, “The technical support mission is conducted on the initiative of Kola NPP. The fact that the Nuclear Plant requested such a mission does not at all mean that there are any problems or shortcomings. On the contrary, it demonstrates only the desire to steadily improve the level of the safety culture.”

Within a week the experts analyzed the documents and instructions regulating Kola NPP personnel’s actions in the course of the work, supervised the work and talked with the Plant’s employees.

“Within the framework of this mission, the experts paid particular attention to people attitude towards a culture of safety”, Conrad Dyube said. “On the basis of interviews and observations of the Plant's managers and employees we made the corresponding conclusions. After all, all issues related to a safety culture are based on the main principle – when making any decisions, management and personnel should give the highest priority to the safety. And what we saw at Kola NPP and at other Russian nuclear power plants, confirms the existence of the high safety culture level. We will pass the report on the results of our mission to the Nuclear Power Plant management and to the WANO Moscow Center.”

The Kolsk NPP is an affiliate of Rosenergoatom Concern JSC and is based 200 km to the south from the city of Murmansk, at the Imandra lakeside. The plant produces around 60% of the Murmansk Region electric power. It has 4 operational power blocks with VVER-type reactors, each of them having capacity of 440 megawatt. The Kolsk NPP supplies electric power to the Murmansk Region and Karelia.


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