01.10.2018
INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT OF LENINGRAD NPP
Leningrad NPP has summed up the results of the WANO Peer Review
From 13 September to 28 September, a full-scale project-informed Peer Review of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) was held at Leningrad NPP. The goal of the Review was to increase the NPP personnel competence, exchange experience and knowledge between the members of the WANO MC, support cooperation between Leningrad NPP and the WANO MC in 2018-2019.
The Peer Review team consisted of 24 experts from eight countries: there were representatives of Russian NPPs (Smolensk, Kola, Balakovo) and foreign companies (Kozloduy, Bushehr, Belarusian, Rovno and others).
“Geographically the participants are presented by a wide variety; any such meetings that take place with international groups of NPP representatives always give a positive result”, Vladimir Pereguda, Leningrad NPP Manager, said.
Vasiliy Aksyonov, the WANO MC Director, commented on the WANO MC team work, “Both sides had a keen interest in discussing the issues. I hope the Review results will be useful for Leningrad NPP.”
The WANO team worked in the areas of operation and emergency response readiness, maintenance and repair, engineering support and others, made walkabouts to personnel workplaces, analyzed technical documents. The experts visited Phase I and Phase II of Leningrad NPP – from an electrical shop, a turbine shop, a chemical shop, a radiation safety department to a spent fuel storage facility and a solid radioactive waste storage facility. Based on the Review results, a draft report was prepared, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
“The work was difficult, fruitful and interesting. All the issues that were discussed were aimed at ensuring the operators’ normal work and creating safe working conditions. The proposals will be applied not only to the RMBK units, but also to new VVERs”, the Plant Manager of Leningrad NPP Vladimir Pereguda added.
The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) is a non-profit organization; it is not a supervisory authority. The Association was established in 1989. Depending on the reactor type its members are separated between four regional centers: in Atlanta, Paris, Moscow, and Tokyo. The Association’s activities are aimed at fulfilling the main goal – maximizing the safety and reliability of NPP operation by exchanging information, facilitating contacts among the WANO members, comparing the results of their work, as well as introducing best practices.
Leningrad NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom. The Plant is located at the town of Sosnovy Bor, 40 km west of St. Petersburg on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. LNPP is the first plant in the country with RBMK-1000 reactors (thermal-neutron heat-pipe cooled uranium-graphite nuclear reactors). The NPP operates four power units with an electric capacity of 1,000 MW each. The first unit of replacement capacities with VVER-1200 reactor is at the physical start-up stage, the second VVER-1200 type unit is under construction. Rosenergoatom JSC is the customer-developer of the project, ATOMPROEKT JSC is the general designer, and CONTSERN TITAN-2 JSC is the general contractor.
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