11.04.2019
INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT OF LENINGRAD NPP
Turkey and Uzbekistan, the strategic partners of Rosatom, have discussed the key goals of the nuclear power industry trade unions in their countries during their visit to the Leningrad NPP
On April 10, a joint international delegation of the top management and the representatives of the energy, water and gas manufacturing trade union of Turkey and the republican oil & gas, geology and nuclear power trade union council of Uzbekistan paid a visit to the Leningrad NPP to learn about the way the social aspects and occupational health and safety are handled at the Russian NPPs.
‘We are studying the best practices at the Leningrad NPP to understand how the cooperation between the employer and the trade union is organized in the realm of occupational health and safety as well as to see what is the social security the personnel receives and how the labour contract arrangements are implemented’, Shurkhat Kurbanov, the chairman of the republican oil & gas, geology and nuclear power trade union council of Uzbekistan, said. ‘Our country is now going through preparation activities to construct an NPP, which is going to be delivered in partnership with the Rosatom State Corporation. This project is crucial for our national economy and energy safety. The NPP construction will result into bringing in new hi-tech jobs. We familiarize ourselves with the public opinion in the countries where NPPs are located to make sure that the project brings value to our country’.
The guests have visited the Leningrad NPP-2 VVER-1200 power block under construction and the new operating Leningrad NPP power block No.5.
‘Our country is now in huge need of electric power; hence, our government has decided to pursue the construction of the Akkuyu NPP’, Ercin Akma, the chairman of the energy, water and gas manufacturing trade union of Turkey, said. ‘Considering that we are just making our first steps in the nuclear power, we wanted to learn more about the 3+ generation power blocks, the social package offered to the Russian NPPs staff. This was the reason why, at the end of 2018, we entered into an agreement with the Russian nuclear power and manufacturing trade union to visit one of the Russian NPPs, learn about their best practices and define the social aspects that will be designed for our employees in the not-so-distant future. I believe that the Leningrad NPP is a great example of how the social policy is managed in the industry’.
‘We are studying the best practices at the Leningrad NPP to understand how the cooperation between the employer and the trade union is organized in the realm of occupational health and safety as well as to see what is the social security the personnel receives and how the labour contract arrangements are implemented’, Shurkhat Kurbanov, the chairman of the republican oil & gas, geology and nuclear power trade union council of Uzbekistan, said. ‘Our country is now going through preparation activities to construct an NPP, which is going to be delivered in partnership with the Rosatom State Corporation. This project is crucial for our national economy and energy safety. The NPP construction will result into bringing in new hi-tech jobs. We familiarize ourselves with the public opinion in the countries where NPPs are located to make sure that the project brings value to our country’.
The guests have visited the Leningrad NPP-2 VVER-1200 power block under construction and the new operating Leningrad NPP power block No.5.
‘Our country is now in huge need of electric power; hence, our government has decided to pursue the construction of the Akkuyu NPP’, Ercin Akma, the chairman of the energy, water and gas manufacturing trade union of Turkey, said. ‘Considering that we are just making our first steps in the nuclear power, we wanted to learn more about the 3+ generation power blocks, the social package offered to the Russian NPPs staff. This was the reason why, at the end of 2018, we entered into an agreement with the Russian nuclear power and manufacturing trade union to visit one of the Russian NPPs, learn about their best practices and define the social aspects that will be designed for our employees in the not-so-distant future. I believe that the Leningrad NPP is a great example of how the social policy is managed in the industry’.
During the roundtable meeting, the trade union leadership has discussed the main aspects of cooperation in the nuclear power, including those related to establishing an effective social partnership and occupational health and safety mechanisms and well as the ways to train skilled personnel and to provide social guarantees for the industry workers.
The Leningrad NPP is the country’s first plant with RBMK-1000 reactors (uranium-graphite circuit-type reactor running on thermal neutrons). The decision that marked its construction was taken in September 1966 by a resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and the Council of Ministers No. 800-252. According to that document, the Leningrad NPP was supposed to become a core in a network of nuclear power plants with RBMK-1000 reactors that were supposed to produce a substantial share of electric power. The construction of the Leningrad NPP was going well, and by 1973 the first power block was fully erected. On December 23, 1973, following stable 72-hours’ operation at the capacity of 150 megawatt, the State Commission signed the acceptance certificate stating that the first power block of the Leningrad nuclear power plant is commissioned for pilot production.
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