01.06.2012
Public Information Centre of Novovoronezh NPP
Turkish Governmental Delegation Puts through Its Visit to Novovoronezh NPP
On May 30, 2012 the governmental delegation of environmental agencies of the Republic of Turkey put through a two-day working visit to the operating Novovoronezh NPP and Novovoronezh II under construction.
As part of the two-day meeting, the guests met with the management and specialists of both plants, visited industrial sites, reviewed the equipment of the operating nuclear power plant, as well as took part in training on the full-scale simulator at the training point.
The representatives of Turkey were impressed by the scales of Nv NPP II construction, where they not only visited the reactor compartment and turbine hall, but also came up to the 172-m cooling tower of Unit 1. The specialists of Novovoronezh II told about the progress of construction of the plant.
On the second day of the visit, there was held a “round table” with the participation of the plant’s specialists, representatives of supervision bodies and public organizations, during which there was shown a presentation about the radiation impact of the plant on the environment, ecology and safety of Novovoronezh population, nature protection activities of the nuclear power plant. It should be noted that the guests asked such an amount of questions that the scheduled conduct of the meeting was exceeded by almost a half.
“I must express my admiration for the high level of competence of the Russian experts,” told Chairman of the Department of the Ministry of Environment and Urban Development, Ali R?za Tanas. “We received extended and confirmed answers during the “round table” for the questions we have been asking for two days.”
“As a representative of the Ministry of Environment, as a person, who directly deals with the analysis of the possible outcome of the nuclear power plants’ operation,” noted the chief negotiant of the delegation, Osman Ozturk, “I may say that all the seen here gives a strong belief that it is a safe plant indeed.”
Advisor to Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Ilkert Sert informed on the results of the visit: “Turkey wants to become a country, which has its own nuclear power plant and nuclear power industry: a decision of the government is that by 2023 the country must have provided itself with nuclear power for 20 %. Having signed the intergovernmental agreement with Russia, Turkey has confirmed its position. And this trip gave us a possibility to see physically how the construction went on, and to see the plant’s design. Here we had a unique opportunity to really see all the stages of nuclear power industry development with VVER model reactors, which will be constructed at Akkuyu NPP: from the building of new units to their decommissioning; and also a very important experience of work with public.”
“The most vivid impression is a very high level of physical security of your plant and a very low primecost of electric power, generated by the plant,” shared his impressions Mr. Ilkert Sert. “If to consider the plant that runs on the coil, take into account those wastes that remain, what areas are occupied by these carbohydrate wastes, then it is not comparable. It’s a very clean, very orderly and very compact production. And we really have a great need for that much cheaper electricity to be produced in our territory. We saw that from the point of view of impact on the environment, the risks were minimal and that the management of the plant was open to a dialogue with public.”
Novovoronezh NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is situated on the bank of the Don river at 42 km south of Voronezh. It is the first NPP in Russia, which operates reactors of VVER-type (Vessel type Pressurized Water Reactor with light water under pressure). Each of the five plant reactors are prime – a prototype of serial power reactors: No.1 power unit operates on VVER-210-type reactor, No.2 power unit – VVER-365, No.3,4 power units – VVER-440, No.5 power unit – VVER-1000.
The radiation background in the area of the plant and the adjacent territory corresponds to the level of power units’ normal operation and does not exceed the natural environmental values.
Online data on the radiation environment near nuclear power plants in Russia and other nuclear facilities are provided on website www.russianatom.ru
As part of the two-day meeting, the guests met with the management and specialists of both plants, visited industrial sites, reviewed the equipment of the operating nuclear power plant, as well as took part in training on the full-scale simulator at the training point.
The representatives of Turkey were impressed by the scales of Nv NPP II construction, where they not only visited the reactor compartment and turbine hall, but also came up to the 172-m cooling tower of Unit 1. The specialists of Novovoronezh II told about the progress of construction of the plant.
On the second day of the visit, there was held a “round table” with the participation of the plant’s specialists, representatives of supervision bodies and public organizations, during which there was shown a presentation about the radiation impact of the plant on the environment, ecology and safety of Novovoronezh population, nature protection activities of the nuclear power plant. It should be noted that the guests asked such an amount of questions that the scheduled conduct of the meeting was exceeded by almost a half.
“I must express my admiration for the high level of competence of the Russian experts,” told Chairman of the Department of the Ministry of Environment and Urban Development, Ali R?za Tanas. “We received extended and confirmed answers during the “round table” for the questions we have been asking for two days.”
“As a representative of the Ministry of Environment, as a person, who directly deals with the analysis of the possible outcome of the nuclear power plants’ operation,” noted the chief negotiant of the delegation, Osman Ozturk, “I may say that all the seen here gives a strong belief that it is a safe plant indeed.”
Advisor to Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Ilkert Sert informed on the results of the visit: “Turkey wants to become a country, which has its own nuclear power plant and nuclear power industry: a decision of the government is that by 2023 the country must have provided itself with nuclear power for 20 %. Having signed the intergovernmental agreement with Russia, Turkey has confirmed its position. And this trip gave us a possibility to see physically how the construction went on, and to see the plant’s design. Here we had a unique opportunity to really see all the stages of nuclear power industry development with VVER model reactors, which will be constructed at Akkuyu NPP: from the building of new units to their decommissioning; and also a very important experience of work with public.”
“The most vivid impression is a very high level of physical security of your plant and a very low primecost of electric power, generated by the plant,” shared his impressions Mr. Ilkert Sert. “If to consider the plant that runs on the coil, take into account those wastes that remain, what areas are occupied by these carbohydrate wastes, then it is not comparable. It’s a very clean, very orderly and very compact production. And we really have a great need for that much cheaper electricity to be produced in our territory. We saw that from the point of view of impact on the environment, the risks were minimal and that the management of the plant was open to a dialogue with public.”
Novovoronezh NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is situated on the bank of the Don river at 42 km south of Voronezh. It is the first NPP in Russia, which operates reactors of VVER-type (Vessel type Pressurized Water Reactor with light water under pressure). Each of the five plant reactors are prime – a prototype of serial power reactors: No.1 power unit operates on VVER-210-type reactor, No.2 power unit – VVER-365, No.3,4 power units – VVER-440, No.5 power unit – VVER-1000.
The radiation background in the area of the plant and the adjacent territory corresponds to the level of power units’ normal operation and does not exceed the natural environmental values.
Online data on the radiation environment near nuclear power plants in Russia and other nuclear facilities are provided on website www.russianatom.ru
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