03.10.2012
Public Information Centre of Kursk NPP
Kursk NPP Begins Comprehensive Emergency Response Exercise (KPU-2012)
On October 3, 2012 Kursk NPP (Kurchatov, the Kursk region) began comprehensive emergency response exercise (KPU-2012) in cooperation with the team for emergency assistance to nuclear power plants (OPAS). It involves several agencies, more than 1,400 people and 150 vehicles.
During KPU there are practiced the preparedness to conventional technological and radiation accident at the nuclear power plant, interaction between the involved agencies for emergency response, as well as practical skills of Kursk NPP personnel in organization and carrying out of works on localization and elimination of emergency situations including sheltering in protective structures and evacuation of the personnel of the nuclear power plant.
For the first time at the training of such a scale, there will be shown a work of the mobile equipment purchased by Rosenergoatom Concern in the post-Fukushima period to improve the plantХs resistance to extreme conditions.
The exercise will be observed by 23 foreign experts from Armenia, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Iran, Korea, Norway, USA, Ukraine, France, Japan, and journalists as well.
Rosenergoatom Concern annually holds the comprehensive emergency response exercise at one of the nuclear power plants of Russia. According to the plan of actions of KPU-2012, there will be demonstrated various activities of emergency and rescue units: sound signals, movement of special vehicles, armored vehicles, sheltering in protective structures and evacuation of Kursk NPP personnel and residents of Kurchatov.
More detailed information on Kursk NPP operation is available by the phone: +7 (47131) 4-85-44.
At the present time Kursk NPP operates the power units No.1, 2 and 4. The units work at the capacity rated by the dispatch schedule. Since September 1 of the current year, Unit 1 is under the scheduled overhaul.
The radiation background in the area of Kursk NPP and the adjacent territory corresponds to the level of power unitsХ normal operation and does not exceed the natural environmental values.
Kursk NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC and in this guise it is a part of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom. The plant is situated south-west of Kursk on the left bank of the river Seim. The plant operates four units with channel-type reactors with total capacity of 4 million kW.
On line detailed data on the radiation environment near nuclear power plants of Russia and other nuclear facilities are provided on website www.russianatom.ru
During KPU there are practiced the preparedness to conventional technological and radiation accident at the nuclear power plant, interaction between the involved agencies for emergency response, as well as practical skills of Kursk NPP personnel in organization and carrying out of works on localization and elimination of emergency situations including sheltering in protective structures and evacuation of the personnel of the nuclear power plant.
For the first time at the training of such a scale, there will be shown a work of the mobile equipment purchased by Rosenergoatom Concern in the post-Fukushima period to improve the plantХs resistance to extreme conditions.
The exercise will be observed by 23 foreign experts from Armenia, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Iran, Korea, Norway, USA, Ukraine, France, Japan, and journalists as well.
Rosenergoatom Concern annually holds the comprehensive emergency response exercise at one of the nuclear power plants of Russia. According to the plan of actions of KPU-2012, there will be demonstrated various activities of emergency and rescue units: sound signals, movement of special vehicles, armored vehicles, sheltering in protective structures and evacuation of Kursk NPP personnel and residents of Kurchatov.
More detailed information on Kursk NPP operation is available by the phone: +7 (47131) 4-85-44.
At the present time Kursk NPP operates the power units No.1, 2 and 4. The units work at the capacity rated by the dispatch schedule. Since September 1 of the current year, Unit 1 is under the scheduled overhaul.
The radiation background in the area of Kursk NPP and the adjacent territory corresponds to the level of power unitsХ normal operation and does not exceed the natural environmental values.
Kursk NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC and in this guise it is a part of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom. The plant is situated south-west of Kursk on the left bank of the river Seim. The plant operates four units with channel-type reactors with total capacity of 4 million kW.
On line detailed data on the radiation environment near nuclear power plants of Russia and other nuclear facilities are provided on website www.russianatom.ru
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