First two permanent workplaces were equipped at the water treatment building of the Leningrad NPP under construction Chemical Department, where a chemical engineer, an equipment operator and a laboratory chemical analyst would work. This event marks the end of the general construction and assembly operations at one of the main construction sites of the first start-up facility and moving to pre-commissioning testing primarily for operating personnel.

ТPermanently equipped workplace of the chemical engineer is situated directly on the water treatment control panel where all the water treatment equipment control is executed from. This allows to use water treatment facility and other auxiliary systems 24 hours a day. Along with this there is a constant need of water sampling for chemical analysis. This task is performed by the laboratory chemical analyst, whose workplace is now also located in the building of water treatment laboratoryУ, the Head of the Chemical Department of Leningrad NPP Yuriy Temnikov says.


The 13 rooms of the water treatment building have already been put into operation. The permanent workplaces are organized in accordance with the sanitary and industrial standards and regulations on illumination, temperature and ventilation, in compliance with labour protection requirements, fire and industrial safety requirements, and equipped with all the necessary equipment, tools and normative documents.

By this spring it is planned to organize three more workplaces at the nuclear services building Р for the Chemical Shop Shift Supervisor, the Lead Engineer of the radioactive water treatment control panel, a senior operator and an operator. The automated workplaces are already connected to the power supply at the moment; the equipment adjusting is undergoing.

The Leningrad NPP is an affiliate company for Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is based in the city of Sosnovy Bor, 40 km to the west from Saint Petersburg at the Gulf of Finland shore. The Leningrad NPP is the first Russian nuclear power plant having RBMK-1000 reactors (uranium-graphite channel-type thermal neutron reactors). The NPP exploits 4 power blocks with the electric capacity of 1000 megawatt each. Also, pursuant to the NPP-2006 project, 1,2 VVER-1200 power blocks included into The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM long-term plan are being constructed. Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC is the owner and developer of the project. Holding TITAN-2 is the primary contractor. ATOMPROEKT is the general designer.


Leningrad  NPP Information and Public Relations Administration.