27.10.2017 Information and Public Relations Administration Rosenergoatom Concern JSC

Rosenergoatom: Pevek public supported the project of a Floating NPP at Chukotka during the public hearings

The participants of the public hearings on the materials of grounding the operation license to the floating power unit (FPU) of the Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) in the town of Pevek of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug held in the town of Pevek supported the project of a Floating NPP at Chukotka.

It is to be recalled that FNPP that is being constructed by Baltiyskiy Zavod – Sudostroyeniye LLC (St. Petersburg) is designed to replace the retired capacity of the world’s most northern Nuclear Power Plant – Bilibino NPP at Chukotka that today generates 80% of electric energy in the isolated Chaun-Bilibino energy system. The first power unit of BlbNPP is to be shutdown in 2019, and the Plant is to be completely shutdown in 2021.

The public hearings on the materials of grounding the operation license to the floating power unit of the Floating Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Pevek (including the files of the environment influence assessment of the projected business and other activity) was held on 24 October, 2017 in the Administration building of Pevek Municipality.

The representatives of the enterprises, organizations, institutions, local government bodies, non-governmental organizations, and political parties that operate over the territory of Pevek Okrug, the representatives of the Customer – the branch of Rosenergoatom Concern JSC – The Directorate on Construction and Operation of floating nuclear power plants, the General Designer of the FNPP – Atomenergo JSC, the designer of hydrotechnical constructions – NPK MorTransNIIProekt Co. – participated in the hearings.

The Chief Expert of the Project Works, Regulatory Affairs, Licensing and Expertise Department of the branch of Rosenergoatom Concern JSC – The Directorate on the Construction and Operation of floating nuclear power plants Igor Vystavkin, the Chief Engineer of the FNPP Mikhail Tarasov, as well as the Deputy Director General of Tsentr Bezopasnosti Transportnykh Sistem LLC Tatiana Kozhemyachenko presented their reports.

Two presentations were shown to the participants of the public hearings. One of them was dedicated to the FNPP purpose and structure, the organization of the floating power unit operation, and another one consisted of the materials on the environment influence assessment. Also, the audience was informed that the FNPP’s project documents had received the positive conclusion of the state expert review.

Upon the results of the public hearings there was no negative attitude or negative image of the business activity connected to the operation of the floating power unit of the Floating Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Pevek of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Also, there were no disputes between the public and the Customer. These facts were set forth in the protocol made upon the results of the public hearings.

It is to be noted that from July, 2016 the floating power unit is under the scheduled mooring tests in order to check the working capacity and the compliance with the design characteristics of the equipment and systems. After the completion of the mooring tests and the works on the preparation of FPU to the transportation in May, 2018 it will be towed to Murmansk at the site of Atomflot FSUE. In October, 2018 the nuclear fuel will be loaded in the reactors, and in November the Plant will be commissioned.

The floating power unit (FPU) Akademik Lomonosov of 20870 project is designed for the operation as a part of the Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP). The time-proved technologies of marine (icebreaker) reactor plants are the basis of the project. The FPU has 2 steam-generation units with KLT-40S reactors with the capacity of 35 MW. This main project of the serial mobile movable low-powered power units for supply of the energy to the large industrial enterprises, port cities, complexes for the oil and gas extraction and processing at the sea shelf is created on the basis of the serial power plant system of nuclear icebreakers proved during the long period operation in Arctic.

The FNPP is designed with the greater safety margin that makes nuclear reactors invincible for tsunami and other natural disasters. In addition the nuclear processes at the ships correspond to all the requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and do not harm the environment.

The Rosenergoaton Concern (the power division of the Rosatom State Corporation) includes 10 Russian nuclear power stations bearing the status of the Concern’s affiliate companies, along with the vendors catering for the needs of the generation company. All in all, the 10 nuclear power stations operate 35 power blocks* (*excluding the Novovoronezh NPP’s 6th power block being at the pilot production stage): 18 of them operate VVER reactors (12 VVER-1000 power blocks and 5 VVER-440 power blocks of different modifications); 15 of them with channel reactors (11 power blocks with RMBK-1000 reactors, four power blocks with EGP-6 reactors); and 2 power blocks with fast neutron sodium cooling reactors (BN-600 and BN-800).

At the moment, the Rosenergoatom NPPs account for 18.3% of the whole electricity output in the
country.

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