02.11.2016  The Rostov NPP’s information and public relations department

The Rostov NPP: the Bulgarian nuclear power experts adopt the best practices of their Volgodonsk colleagues in the realm of operating ventilation and conditioning systems

Late October, a team of the Bulgarian Kozloduy NPP specialists has worked at the Rostov NPP for one week. The aim of their visit is to study the best practices of their Volgodonsk colleagues in the realm of operating ventilation and conditioning systems at the VVER-1000 reactors.

The climate in the area where the Rostov NPP is located is similar to the one in Bulgaria, which is why the Bulgarian nuclear power specialists have decided to visit it. They have discussed the peculiarities of operating the containment ventilation systems under high temperatures, the experience in running refrigerating and ejector machines and maintaining the temperature profile at the process control system rooms under abnormally high outside temperatures, the issues of modernizing the ventilation and the conditioning systems, along with the process of aerosol filter regeneration and the methodology for defining the heat exchange units’ capacity.


The Rostov NPP specialists have accumulated extensive track record operating and maintaining ventilation and climate systems, and their colleagues from Bulgaria have both received all the information they were looking for and could witness how effective the input ventilation, the conditioning, and the smoke removal systems are.

The Bulgarian experts will use this knowledge when running the ventilation and climate systems at the Kozloduy NPP.
“During our visit, we could see how professional and friendly our colleagues at the Rostov NPP are. We were happy to work with them”, the Bulgarian team members said.

The Rostov NPP is an affiliate company of the Rosenergoatom Concern. The company is located on the bank of the Tsymliany water reservoir, 13.5 km away from Volgodonsk. The NPP runs VVER-1000 reactors with the designed capacity of 1000 megawatts. The 1st power block was launched operational in 2001, with the second and the third ones to follow in 2010 and on September 17, 2015, respectively. The 4th power block is currently under construction.

For more details on the radiation background next to the Russian NPPs and other nuclear power facilities, please visit www.russianat?m.ru


The Rostov NPP’s information and public relations department.



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