More than a hundred managers and workers of the Beloyarsk NPP took part in the seminar of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on preparation for the OSART mission*. The seminar called “General concept of OSART” was held by the experts led by the head of the IAEA’s operational safety team Peter Tarren in Zarechny (Sverdlovsk Oblast). At the seminar, the concept of the carrying out OSART’s missions and the strategy of the holding inspections at the site of the nuclear power plant were discussed.

The OSART mission at the Beloyarsk NPP is scheduled 2021. This is one of the forms of IAEA activity aimed at the evaluating nuclear power enterprises in terms of international standards and requirements, at the identifying NPP strengths that may be useful for other nuclear power plants or for operating organizations and regulatory bodies, as well as at the determining areas for possible improvements in order to develop operational safety.

Safety is the highest priority in all activities of the Beloyarsk NPP. The nuclear power plant provides cost-effective production and reliable supply of consumers with electrical and thermal energy with unconditional compliance with all types of safety. The Beloyarsk NPP includes two operating power units (the power unit No. 3 with the BN-600 reactor and the power unit No. 4 with the BN-800 reactor), gross installed capacity of which is about 15% of the installed capacity of all power plants of the Sverdlovsk energy system.