23.05.2011  Public Information Centre of Rostov NPP

Rostov NPP: the plant has successfully passed the security status test

On May 16-20, 2011 under the leadership of Chief Expert of the NPP department of technical and safety control organization of the Department of the Concern safety and Production control Evgeny Shvetsov Rosenergoatom Concern Committee held a scheduled inspection of the status of Rostov nuclear plant nuclear, ecology and fire safeties.

The main conclusion made by the specialists according to the results was as follows: upon the whole the state of the enterprise nuclear, ecology and fire safeties met the requirements of the regulations and rules of safety existing in the nuclear branch.

The specialists of the Central Offices of the Concern, Balakovo, Beloyarsk and Kalinin NPPs were included into the Committee. Its members marked the fields for improvement and the examples of the positive practices.

The inspection was held using the methods of numerical evaluation of safety, developed on the basis of the world positive experience. These methods allow defining the fields of careful attention for both the nuclear plants’ and the Concern central office’s specialists with the purpose of the NPPs safety level improvement.

“Rostov NPP, that is going to celebrate its first 10th anniversary this year, has a high level of operational order and safety provision”, Committee Chairman Yevgeny Shvetsov noted.

According to the inspection results the committee made up an act, where the estimation of the safety on the branches under consideration was reflected.

Rostov NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The nuclear power plant is located on the bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir 13.5 km far from Volgodonsk city. The nuclear plant has two operating power units of VVER-1000-type reactors with installed capacity of 1000 MW. Power unit No. 1 was put into commercial operation in 2001, power unit No 2 – in December, 2010. Power units Nos. 3 and 4 have been constructed since 2009. 

Detailed and timely information about the radiation environment near Russian NPPs and other objects of the nuclear industry is available in the site www.russianatom.ru.


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