14.03.2011 18:20  Public Information Centre of Novovoronezh NPP

“What? Where? When?” Contest Has Been Held at Novovoronezh NPP

Talented people are talented in everything – that was convincingly proved by “What? Where? When?” contest organized at Novovoronezh NPP last weekend.

Six teams of erudites, representing different NPP subdivisions, contested the right for intellectual superiority. Among the participants there were not only the winners of regional contests called “Engineer of the Year”, international youth scientific and practical conferences, but also of sports competitions. That was Evgeny Golubev, Engineer of nuclear safety department, Roman Slivkin, Chief specialist of reactor compartment of the 5th unit, and Sergey Bukreev, Chief engineer of metrology department.

The representatives of operation and repair departments, chemists and the specialists of support systems department, workers of social development department, metrology, nuclear safety, public information centre and security service were fighting for victory.

Though the tasks were quite difficult, the power workers successfully coped with them. The teams “Headfull” (reactor and turbine department No. 2) and nuclear safety department, having gained 13 scores, demonstrated smart erudition. “Maximum”, the team of metrology department, did not fall behind much. But those teams who were not included on the winners list, also received their minute of glory: they gave the right answers for several questions as well.

All the intellectual tournament participants were awarded with significant money prizes.

Congratulating the intellectual game participants, Anatoly Levadny, Deputy HR Director, noted: “You not only showed the knowledge, recommendable for atomists, but also delivered much pleasure to the supporters. The team winner name is “Headfull”, but I would also relate this to all the participants and the supporters. Our today hall is a “headfull”.

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. At present three power units are in operation (power units Nos. 1, 2 were shut down in 1988 and in 1990 respectively).


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