06.04.2016
Kursk NPP Information and Public Relations Administration
The Kursk NPP: 32.5 billion rubles are to be invested in the power blocks’ safe operation management by 2027
32.5 billion rubles are to be invested in the Kursk NPP power blocks’ safe and stable operation management by 2027. The funds will be allocated to implement contemporary equipment and technologies in order to modernize the station and make it more reliable.
The latter was stated during the scientific conference “Analyzing the taken corrective actions against the factors resulting into the Chernobyl and Fukushima NPPs’ accidents and evaluating the Kursk NPP’s security state as of now”.
The conference was held in the city of Kurchatov (the Kursk Region) and was, among other events, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the first Kursk NPP chief engineer Tom Petrovich Nikolaev’s birthday*.
“According to the calculations, if the actions taken at the Kursk NPP headed by Mr. Nikolaev had also been performed at the Chernobyl NPP fourth power block, such harsh accident would have been prevented”, said Mikhail Rozhdestvensky, the head of the physical research and nuclear security analysis department at JSC "NIKIET".
Vladimir Druzhinin, the head of the NPPs with RBMK operation scientific and technical maintenance department at VNIIAES, said that the Kursk NPP boasts the most swift-acting security system in the world. “This station is the acknowledged leader in new security systems development and implementation, and subsequently, those are utilized widespread at other similar power blocks”, he said.
“Those measures introduced at the Kursk NPP under the command of Mr. Nikolaev were elaborated on a large scale during an in-depth technical modernization of the four operating power blocks in 1994-2009. As a result, the main NPP’s security factor – core damage probability – was improved almost 100 times. We will continue our efforts to raise security standards, a secure operation is our top priority”, Alexander Uvarkin, the Kursk NPP chief engineer, has noted.
The Kursk NPP and other Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC nuclear power stations work hard on introducing the “post-Fukushima” measures to make the NPPs more resistant against extreme natural conditions.
As a part of those actions close-out, the company has purchased mobile equipment (portable generator and pump units) to cater for reliable Kursk NPP water and electricity supply. Technical projects for mobile equipment introduction are being actively deployed. A seismic protection system is at the pilot production stage on all power blocks. In order to coordinate the accident-prevention activities, there is a unified radio communication system in place, which is compliant with the TETRA standard. This unit caters for stable and reliable connection within the Kursk NPP surveillance area regardless of the situation.
The ongoing production modernization aiming at making the Kursk NPP more secure and energy-efficient is among the key factors supporting the station’s impressive output since 2010. In 2015 and in three out of four preceding years, the plant has attained its highest production results, delivering over 29 billion kWh of electric power annually.
The representatives of the Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC, the Kurchatov Institute, NIKIET, VNIIAES, as well as multiple generations of the Kursk NPP employees, the Kurchatov city parliament delegates, the students and lecturers of the Southwest State University, and the community leaders of the city of Kurchatov took part in the conference.
The guests have laid flowers to the monument dedicated to T.P. Nikolaev in Kurchatov. His friends and former colleagues have also delivered short speeches with their memories about the first Kursk NPP chief engineer.
* Tom Petrovich Nikolaev is an outstanding nuclear expert, the Lenin and the State prizes honoree who was laid the ground for the modern technical policy aimed at making the power blocks with High Power Channel-type Reactors (RBMK) at the Kursk NPP and other similar power stations more secure. Thanks to Mr. Nikolaev’s leadership, the technical accident-prevention measures were designed specifically for NPPs operating RBMKs, later serving as the prototypes for the contemporary security systems. Another thing he is credited for is that he has inspired the safety culture within the team.
The Kursk NPP, as part of the "Rosenergoatom Concern", is included into the electricity division of the State Corporation "Rosatom". The station is located 40 km south-west of the city Kursk on the left bank of Seym. The NPP has four operating units with RBMK RBMK-1000 reactors with total capacity of 4 million KW of electricity. Power units were connected to the unified energy system of the country in 1976, 1979, 1983 and 1985. All existing power units had technical modernization in 1994-2009. The Kursk NPP is the largest power generating source in the Central Russian Chernozem.
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The latter was stated during the scientific conference “Analyzing the taken corrective actions against the factors resulting into the Chernobyl and Fukushima NPPs’ accidents and evaluating the Kursk NPP’s security state as of now”.
The conference was held in the city of Kurchatov (the Kursk Region) and was, among other events, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the first Kursk NPP chief engineer Tom Petrovich Nikolaev’s birthday*.
“According to the calculations, if the actions taken at the Kursk NPP headed by Mr. Nikolaev had also been performed at the Chernobyl NPP fourth power block, such harsh accident would have been prevented”, said Mikhail Rozhdestvensky, the head of the physical research and nuclear security analysis department at JSC "NIKIET".
Vladimir Druzhinin, the head of the NPPs with RBMK operation scientific and technical maintenance department at VNIIAES, said that the Kursk NPP boasts the most swift-acting security system in the world. “This station is the acknowledged leader in new security systems development and implementation, and subsequently, those are utilized widespread at other similar power blocks”, he said.
“Those measures introduced at the Kursk NPP under the command of Mr. Nikolaev were elaborated on a large scale during an in-depth technical modernization of the four operating power blocks in 1994-2009. As a result, the main NPP’s security factor – core damage probability – was improved almost 100 times. We will continue our efforts to raise security standards, a secure operation is our top priority”, Alexander Uvarkin, the Kursk NPP chief engineer, has noted.
The Kursk NPP and other Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC nuclear power stations work hard on introducing the “post-Fukushima” measures to make the NPPs more resistant against extreme natural conditions.
As a part of those actions close-out, the company has purchased mobile equipment (portable generator and pump units) to cater for reliable Kursk NPP water and electricity supply. Technical projects for mobile equipment introduction are being actively deployed. A seismic protection system is at the pilot production stage on all power blocks. In order to coordinate the accident-prevention activities, there is a unified radio communication system in place, which is compliant with the TETRA standard. This unit caters for stable and reliable connection within the Kursk NPP surveillance area regardless of the situation.
The ongoing production modernization aiming at making the Kursk NPP more secure and energy-efficient is among the key factors supporting the station’s impressive output since 2010. In 2015 and in three out of four preceding years, the plant has attained its highest production results, delivering over 29 billion kWh of electric power annually.
The representatives of the Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC, the Kurchatov Institute, NIKIET, VNIIAES, as well as multiple generations of the Kursk NPP employees, the Kurchatov city parliament delegates, the students and lecturers of the Southwest State University, and the community leaders of the city of Kurchatov took part in the conference.
The guests have laid flowers to the monument dedicated to T.P. Nikolaev in Kurchatov. His friends and former colleagues have also delivered short speeches with their memories about the first Kursk NPP chief engineer.
* Tom Petrovich Nikolaev is an outstanding nuclear expert, the Lenin and the State prizes honoree who was laid the ground for the modern technical policy aimed at making the power blocks with High Power Channel-type Reactors (RBMK) at the Kursk NPP and other similar power stations more secure. Thanks to Mr. Nikolaev’s leadership, the technical accident-prevention measures were designed specifically for NPPs operating RBMKs, later serving as the prototypes for the contemporary security systems. Another thing he is credited for is that he has inspired the safety culture within the team.
The Kursk NPP, as part of the "Rosenergoatom Concern", is included into the electricity division of the State Corporation "Rosatom". The station is located 40 km south-west of the city Kursk on the left bank of Seym. The NPP has four operating units with RBMK RBMK-1000 reactors with total capacity of 4 million KW of electricity. Power units were connected to the unified energy system of the country in 1976, 1979, 1983 and 1985. All existing power units had technical modernization in 1994-2009. The Kursk NPP is the largest power generating source in the Central Russian Chernozem.
The up-to-date information on the nuclear environment close to the Russian NOOs and other nuclear objects is available at www.russianatom.ru
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