On September 26, 2014 students of Volgodonsk engineering institute MEPhI and Volgodonsk school students, interested in the environment and radioecology, gathered at the Information Center of the Rostov NPP. Within the past Ecotour the head of the radioecological research Institute of Physics Laboratory, Ph.D., Associate Professor from the Department of Technical Physics SFU Elena Buraeva made a speech for them.

During "ekodesant" scholars and students of the Physics Department of Southern Federal University sampled the soil at different sites in the surveillance zone of the nuclear power plant, so that later they could explore the soil for the maintenance and migration in her natural and artificial radionuclides in the laboratory. Such studies have been conducted for 15 years.

Scientific director of the project Buraeva Elena said: "Throughout the period of monitoring levels of radionuclides in the soil has not exceeded the norm, it remains at the level of environmental values and did not change in comparison with the period when the nuclear power plant has not worked."

The results of two studies of eco-tours, passed this year, will be consolidated with the monitoring of radionuclides in the surveillance zone of the Rostov NPP, obtained by the SFU scientists during observations of background radiation in given territory since 1999, and published in a special edition.

The Rostovskaya nuclear power plant is a branch of JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". The nuclear station is located on the bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir in 13,5 km from Volgodonsk. At nuclear station two power units with VVER-1000 reactors with an installed capacity of 1000 MWt are operated. The power unit No. 1 is put into commercial operation in 2001, the power unit No. 2 – in December, 2010. Current information about a radiation situation near the nuclear power plant in Russia and other objects of the nuclear industry is provided on a site www.russianatom.ru.