17.03.2011 09:59  Public Information Centre of Novovoronezh NPP

Seminar- onsite training concerning occupational safety and health is being Held at the Novovoronezh NPP

Seminar- onsite training concerning occupational safety and health is held for Chief Engineers and Heads of Russian NPPs Labor Safety Departments at Novovoronezh NPP. The seminar program includes summarizing of the NPP work in the field of labor safety for 2010, reports of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC specialists, representatives of third party organizations and Federal authorities of safety management and regulation at the use of nuclear power, participation in the Day of Labor Safety held at NV NPP, inspection of the working places in enterprise subdivisions.

Greeting to the seminar participants, Director of Novovoronezh NPP Vladimir Povarov wished everybody constructive and efficient work. In his turn, Deputy General Inspector - Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC Chief Inspector Vyacheslav Vikin in his opening speech noted that the situation with labor safety within the recent years had significantly improved at the operating NPPs, but, according to him, the work in this direction must not be decreased, and, vice versa, the efforts for its perfection should be broadened.

Head of Labor Safety Department Alexey Ivanov reported that one of the reasons for the seminar organization at NV NPP was the fact that the works on the 5th power unit modernization were performed there. “At this stage it is important to see how labor safety is provided. Because in it the most large-scale work, concerning all the plants. Of course, people safety control is our major aim”, - he underlined.

Seminar- onsite training at the Novovoronezh NPP concerning occupational safety and health will finish its work on March 18 this year.  

Novovoronezh NPP is a branch of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The plant is situated on the bank of the Don River, 42 km to the south of Voronezh. This is the first Russian NPP with VVER-type reactors (pressurized water reactors of the vessel type using light pressurized water). Each of the five plant reactors is the main one – a prototype of serial power-producing reactors: power unit No. 1 with the VVER-210 reactor, power unit No. 2 with the VVER-365 reactor, power units Nos. 3, 4 with the VVER-440 reactors and power unit No. 5 with the VVER-1000 reactor. The first power unit was commissioned in 1964, the second – in 1969, the third – in 1971, the forth – in 1972, the fifth one – in 1979. At present three power units are in operation (power units Nos. 1, 2 were shut down in 1988 and in 1990 respectively).

Detailed and timely information about the radiation environment near Russian NPPs and other objects of the nuclear industry is available in the site www.russianatom.ru.


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