Kursk nuclear plant public inspections were continued by the visit to the Kursk NPP of a group of students, postgraduates and employees of the Center for Collective Use “Scientific Technologies” of the Southwestern State University (SSU) on April 29, 2011. The inspection participants noted a high level of reliability and safety of Kursk NPP power units.

The guests have or are getting physical and engineering education in Nanotechnologies specialty. That is why they estimated Kursk NPP systems and equipment condition on a professional level. Following the inspection route, the group members were deeply penetrating into various technical details and circumstances, were leading a competent conversation with the nuclear plant employees, controlled the sensors’ and devices’ readings.

“Everything is arranged literally”, Director of Center for Collective Use “Scientific Technologies” Alexander Kuzmenko announced. “As an educated physicist, who knows nuclear physics firsthand, I understand the processes going on at the nuclear plant. This is the most modern production, though the plant was constructed 35 years ago. Kursk nuclear plant possesses multiple safety margins for provision of the equipment with electric power and other resources and thus differs radically from the level recently demonstrated in a well-known country of technological outbreak”. 

“Of course, neighborhood with a nuclear plant comes under notice, especially on the part of the people who are not experts in nuclear industry”, Associate Professor of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the Southwestern State University Andrey Kuzko noted. “However, having visited Kursk NPP, I assured myself and want to make other people sure that multiple means of technical protection, the level of the staff work organization, constant safety analyses neutralize the risks of whatever serious events”.

“The plant is ready to provide the population security, it guarantees it”, Vladimir Starikovsky, Southwestern State University postgraduate, Pribor OJSC technological engineer stated. “Earlier I also slept well, but now I have come to know that there is a real ground for it”.

During the final meeting with the participants of the public inspection group, Chief Engineer Alexander Uvakin expressed assurance that the visit of the specialists of one of the largest technical higher educational establishments of Central Federal District will play an important role in the training of highly qualified personnel for nuclear industry enterprises.

At present Kursk NPP operates power units Nos. 1, 3 and 4. The actual capacity corresponds to the dispatch schedule. Power unit No. 2 has been in scheduled major repair since April 22 of the current year.

The radiation background at Kursk NPP industrial site and its location corresponds to the set standards and does not exceed the natural background values.