OREANDA-NEWS. January 14, 2007. The acting director of the LNPP-2 project Oleg Lebedev says that presently they are actively preparing for the construction. “Particularly, we are preparing the site: digging the pit and cutting down the trees and we are also building access roads. A total of 7.5bln-8bln RUR is to be spent on the project in 2008 (6bln RUR from the federal budget), ” says Lebedev.

“In Nov 2007 we finished the reconstruction of the section of motor road A-121 connecting Sosnovy Bor (Leningrad region) with the industrial site of Leningrad NPP and the construction site of LNPP-2,” says Lebedev.

Note

The construction of LNPP-2 is part of the federal target program for the development of the energy industry of Russia 2007–2015 approved by the Government of the Russian Federation on Oct 5 2006.

On Aug 30 the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko and the governor of Leningrad region Valery Serdukov officially launched the LNPP-2 project.

On Sept 12 Rostekhnadzor granted licenses for deployment of the 1st and 2nd units of Leningrad NPP-2.

In 2008 the Government is planning to allocate 6bln RUR for the project. The total cost of the project is almost 70bln RUR.

The project was approved by the public and is presently being considered by the Chief State Inspection.

The project is analogous to the units built by Russian specialists at Tianwan NPP in China – WWER-1000.

The 1st unit is to be launched in 2013