The Kursk NPP is fully prepared to bear the load during the autumn-winter period in 2015-2016. These are the results of the inspection commission of the enterprise "Rosenergoatom" Concern, chaired by the Chief Expert of the Department for Security and Control of production at the "Rosenergoatom" Eugene Shvetsov.

The delegation also included representatives of the Rostekhnadzor fin the Kursk region and the Kolskaya NPP.

The commission members made rounds and inspections of workplaces, territories, buildings and structures, station service areas and equipment, documentation and conducted interviews with representatives of the departments and units of the Kursk NPP.

The readiness of the staff, technical equipment, electrical and hydraulic equipment, vehicles, roads were tested and the state of heating networks, district heating and boiler systems, fire safety was cheked.

The inspection issued the Kursk NPP certificate of readiness to bear autumn-winter peak in 2015-2016.

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