02.06.2011 Public Information Centre of Rostov NPP

Rostov NPP: tourists of “Vertical” sports club have become the winners of the rafting championship

The team of “Vertical” sports club of Rostov became the winner of “Nuclear Regatta – 2011” held on May 26-29 in Murmansk region on the confluence of the Kitsa and Kola Rivers.

Twelve teams from Murmansk, Leningrad, Rostov and Sverdlovsk regions took part in the competition.

The sportsmen were competing in slalom in two- and four-hulled vessels, in slalom – kayak, in team race, marathon and saving works.

According to the results of the team, test the sportsmen of Vertical Rostov NPP travel club: Nikolay Korepin, Vasily Korepin, Pavel Verinikin, Dmitry Romanov, Vladimir Shipaev, Sergey Sushenko and team captain Aleksey Grachev became the leaders. The team of Leningrad NPP took the second prize and Kursk NPP representatives took the third one.

The team of RoNPP has been taking part in the “Nuclear Regatta” for the third time. As plant travel club head Aleksey Grachev noted, the team’s victory was the result of persistent trainings. “But we should not relax, the next competition in slalom will be held in June, and we must get ready for them”, he underlined.

According to Rostov NPP trade union committee Chairman Alexander Soroka, the competition was being held at the time of the scheduled preventive repair at power unit No. 1 of Rostov NPP, when every employee is highly needed for work performance. “But anyway we have found an opportunity for “Vertical” sportsmen to take part in “Nuclear Regatta”. And they met our expectations - having returned with the main prize and showed a real will to win, even in spite of the fact that the natural conditions of our city were not quite proper for the trainings”, Alexander Soroka noted.

Classical rafting is the rafting on the river rapids on large frameless inflatable vessels – rafts which possess a great buoyancy, are stable on the water and convenient for placing groups of tourists.

“Vertical” travel club was founded on the basis of Rostov NPP by a group of initiative atomists supported by the plant Administration and trade union committee. This year it has its jubilee – the 10th anniversary.

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.

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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