The Kursk NPP started earlier than planned spring spawning campaign. Adjustments to the plans for water department workers were made by the weather: water in the cooling pond warmed to the desired temperature earlier than usual.
 
Twenty-three million carp larvaes have now received their permanent residence in the cooling pond of the enterprise. This fish cleans the cooling pond, eating unwanted vegetation, zebra mussels and silt, which contributes to the normal functioning of the equipment and to ensure safe operation of the nuclear power plant.

The peculiarity of the current spawning campaign is that young carps were produced in the factory at the site of water department to maintain quality of service water naturally - without the use of pituitary injections.

"The biological method of cleaning the cooling pond is part of the environmental policy of our company - said the the Kursk NPP water department head Alex Gaumont. - Technical body of water is associated with the city limits, and we make every effort to preserve biological resources - our's fish bio cleaners".

The next stages of the spring spawning campaign is to release three days larvaes of white, black and silver carps by two million each fish in April and May into the cooling pond, as well as ponds stocking at the water department territory by herbivorous fish for its further rearing. In the autumn this grown-up juveniles will also be released into the cooling pond.

The Kursk NPP has power units №№ 1, 3, 4 in work at the moment. They work with capacity, established by the dispatch schedule. The power unit №2 is in planned repair.

The radiation background is at level, that corresponds to the normal operation of power units and does not exceed natural background values, at the Kursk NPP and in the area of its location.

Updated information about the radiation environment near Russian NPPs and other nuclear facilities is provided on site www.russianatom.ru.

The Kursk NPP, as part of the «Rosenergoatom Concern», is included into the electricity division of the State Corporation "Rosatom". The station is located 40 km south-west of the city Kursk on the left bank of Seym. The NPP has four operating units with RBMK RBMK-1000 reactors with total capacity of 4 million KW of electricity. Power units were connected to the unified energy system of the country in 1976, 1979, 1983 and 1985. All existing power units had technical modernization in 1994-2009. The Kursk NPP is the largest power generating source in the Central Russian Chernozem. The Kursk NPP share in installed capacity of all power plants in Chernozem exceeds 50%.