22.06.2016
Leningrad NPP Information and Public Relations Administration
The Leningrad NPP: the fourth power block is in the spotlight for the international OSART IAEA mission
The Leningrad NPP has hosted a meeting and a seminar to prepare for the OSART (Operating Safety Analysis Review Team – OSART) mission organized by IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) with the operational safety analysis specialists to be involved.
As of now, the scope and the time lines of the OSART mission are set. The IAEA experts will evaluate the Leningrad NPP’s operational safety level based on the 4th power block during the period of November 13-30, 2017. The team will cover the following aspects: leadership and governance, training and certification, operation, technical maintenance and repairs, technical support, operational experience implementation, radiation protection, chemistry, incident management.
“The main goal of an OSART mission is to make the nuclear power plant safe. The government of the Russian Federation invites an OSART mission to one of the Russian NPPs every other year, thus demonstrating its dedication towards fostering secure nuclear power industry”, Mr. Fuming Jiang, the IAEA operational safety analysis specialist has noted during the preparatory meeting. – Another important aim of the OSART mission is to cater for information and experience exchange between the IAEA experts and our partners, the NPP’s staff. The OSART mission is not an inspection, but rather an opportunity for associates representing different nuclear power stations to give each other recommendations on how to improve their processes”.
The OSART mission is the earliest type of IAEA missions dating back to 1983. Since 2004, the IAEA has been focusing on making sure that any experts’ recommendations and suggestions are based on the standards. Prior to it, they would just be an expression of an expert’s personal opinion. The IAEA standards are being elaborated and constantly improved based on the consensus of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s participants.
The OSART mission does not evaluate a nuclear power plant’s security level per se and does not rate the NPPs in terms of their security. Instead, the mission concentrates on the IAEA standards implementation and reviews operational safety in the context of how an NPP complies with them.
The mission lasts for seventeen days and is headed by an IAEA representative. Nuclear power experts from all over the world might be involved in the process, too. In around 18 months after the main stage, 2 IAEA representatives and 1-3 external experts are to pay another visit to see how the OSART mission’s recommendations and suggestions are being implemented.
The Leningrad NPP is an affiliate company for Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is based in the city of Sosnovy Bor, 80 km to the west from Saint Petersburg at the Gulf of Finland shore. The Leningrad NPP is the first Russian nuclear power plant having RBMK-1000 reactors (uranium-graphite channel-type thermal neutron reactors). The NPP exploits 4 power blocks with the electric capacity of 1000 megawatt each.
The substitution capabilities for the existing nuclear power plant have been in construction since 2008. Two VVER-1200 power blocks are being constructed in accordance with the NPP-2006 project.
Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC is the owner and developer of the project. Holding TITAN-2 is the primary contractor. ATOMPROEKT is the general designer.
Leningrad NPP Information and Public Relations Administration.
As of now, the scope and the time lines of the OSART mission are set. The IAEA experts will evaluate the Leningrad NPP’s operational safety level based on the 4th power block during the period of November 13-30, 2017. The team will cover the following aspects: leadership and governance, training and certification, operation, technical maintenance and repairs, technical support, operational experience implementation, radiation protection, chemistry, incident management.
“The main goal of an OSART mission is to make the nuclear power plant safe. The government of the Russian Federation invites an OSART mission to one of the Russian NPPs every other year, thus demonstrating its dedication towards fostering secure nuclear power industry”, Mr. Fuming Jiang, the IAEA operational safety analysis specialist has noted during the preparatory meeting. – Another important aim of the OSART mission is to cater for information and experience exchange between the IAEA experts and our partners, the NPP’s staff. The OSART mission is not an inspection, but rather an opportunity for associates representing different nuclear power stations to give each other recommendations on how to improve their processes”.
The OSART mission is the earliest type of IAEA missions dating back to 1983. Since 2004, the IAEA has been focusing on making sure that any experts’ recommendations and suggestions are based on the standards. Prior to it, they would just be an expression of an expert’s personal opinion. The IAEA standards are being elaborated and constantly improved based on the consensus of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s participants.
The OSART mission does not evaluate a nuclear power plant’s security level per se and does not rate the NPPs in terms of their security. Instead, the mission concentrates on the IAEA standards implementation and reviews operational safety in the context of how an NPP complies with them.
The mission lasts for seventeen days and is headed by an IAEA representative. Nuclear power experts from all over the world might be involved in the process, too. In around 18 months after the main stage, 2 IAEA representatives and 1-3 external experts are to pay another visit to see how the OSART mission’s recommendations and suggestions are being implemented.
The Leningrad NPP is an affiliate company for Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is based in the city of Sosnovy Bor, 80 km to the west from Saint Petersburg at the Gulf of Finland shore. The Leningrad NPP is the first Russian nuclear power plant having RBMK-1000 reactors (uranium-graphite channel-type thermal neutron reactors). The NPP exploits 4 power blocks with the electric capacity of 1000 megawatt each.
The substitution capabilities for the existing nuclear power plant have been in construction since 2008. Two VVER-1200 power blocks are being constructed in accordance with the NPP-2006 project.
Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC is the owner and developer of the project. Holding TITAN-2 is the primary contractor. ATOMPROEKT is the general designer.
Leningrad NPP Information and Public Relations Administration.
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