OREANDA-NEWS. September 19, 2007.  Representatives of nine countries are observing the complex emergency training that has set off at Leningrad NPP today: Germany, Korea, Norway, the United States, Finland, France, Sweden, Ukraine and Armenia.

To remind, the training will last till Sept 21.

It will be a large-scale event involving representatives of Rostekhnadzor, RosHydroMet, Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute,” Nuclear Safety Institute, N.A. Dolezhal Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering, Typhoon SPA, Rosatom Crisis Center, firemen, interior troops, rescuers of LNPP, Regional Crisis Center and Emergency Ministry, first aid officers.

Check points, radiation control and decontamination stations and other necessary facilities will be deployed in the area during the training. Some of LNPP employees and Sosnovy Bor residents may be evacuated to a special area.

The trainees will use warning signals: sirens and “Training” signs.

Since Apr 1 2002 Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant has been the branch of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian State Concern for Production of Electric and Thermal Power at Nuclear Power Plants” (Rosenergoatom Concern).

The plant has four units with RBMK-1000 reactors with a total capacity of 4000 MW. It employs 5,977 people: 5,635 industrial employees and 342 non-industrial employees and pays them 26,695 RUR a month: 27,306 RUR to industrial personnel and 11,380 RUR to non-industrial personnel.