The athlete from satellite city Kurchatov of the Kursk NPP Inna Deriglazova won the gold medal at the World Fencing Championships, which was held in Moscow from 13 to 19 July 2015.

After several successful matches in the final Inna met with teammate Aida Shanaeva, who became world champion in 2009. The girls walked hand in hand, but good luck this time was on the side of Ina Deriglazova, 15:11 ensured Kurchatov athlete gold medal and the title of world champion.

It is worth noting that the career of 25-year-old athlete has a lot of achievements, including the silver medal at the Olympic Games held in London. However, private gold in the World Championships Inna won for the first time.

Another medal Inna Deriglazova got at team competition at the World Championships. The Russian national team included also Julia Biryukova, who is a representative of Kurchatov fencing school too. Girls showed a high level of training. However, the final match did not favor the Russians. Our team was opposed by a team of the strongest fencers in the world - the Italians. They seized the initiative, had the advantages of the score and kept the gap to the end of the match, winning with a score of 45:36. As a result, the team from Russia got "silver".

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.