People in the region are positive about the Kursk nuclear power plant - this result showed a sociological survey carried out at the beginning of June 2015. Their loyalty to the nuclear power plant confirmed 80% of respondents.

Collection and processing of statistical data in the region are engaged in research center "Perspective» (www.ntcpa.ru). This work is being done for the diagnosis and prognosis of social attitudes in the regions, where the branches of the JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom" are located, as well as to identify the population's attitude to the nuclear industry enterprises, located in the territory of  respondents’ residence.

Positive trend can also be seen in relation to the issue of nuclear power in the Kursk region: 85% of respondents believe that the industry should be actively promoted. In 2014 the figure was 73%. Obvious growth is connected with the construction of the Kursk NPP-2 by experts. The construction of new capacities is seen as an opportunity to attract a large number of contractors, including regional ones by the population of the region.

To the question "Do you approve the use of nuclear energy as one way of ensuring our country's electricity" 87% of residents said yes. Last year only 80% of respondents said yes to this question.

In general the survey showed this year that confidence in nuclear power is growing in the region and the activities of the Kursk nuclear power plant is estimated as safe and promising by the population.

In total the survey all around the country includes nearly 5.5 thousand respondents or at least 600 in each region, where nuclear power plants are located. The level of permissible error was less than 3%.

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

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.

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.

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