Viktor Dunayev, Deputy Director General of VNIIAES

— Nizhniy Novgorod NPP will be built on the basis of modern NPP-2006 project

Public hearings on the preliminary environmental impact assessment of the construction and operation of the 1st and 2nd units of Nizhniy Novgorod Nuclear Power Plant took place in Navashino, Nizhniy Novgorod region on Sept 4 2009.

Nizhniy Novgorod Nuclear Power Plant will be built on the basis of modern NPP-2006 project. The automated process control system designed by our institute for this project is based on state-of-art solutions.

The digital safety control system as a basis for automated process control system for NPP-2006 project implies a wide spectrum of control functions and high flexibility in case of change in functions, enlarged methods of equipment diagnosis, high precision of measurements, efficiency, optimization of operating personnel, lower energy consumption and smaller size. As a result, the plants built on the basis of NPP-2006 project are very safe. I would like to remind you that NPP-2006 is an improved version of NPP-92 project certified in Europe in 2007 and meeting all international safety and efficiency standards.

As regards innovative safety technologies, the project implies the use of display and remote control mechanisms, additional set of emergency control means complying with the highest international standards.

Nizhniy Novgorod NPP is a serial project. A similar project is presently being implemented at Novovoronezh NPP-2. The general designer is Nizhniy Novgorod Atomenergoproekt (part of Atomenergoprom), the owner is Energoatom Concern OJSC (100% subsidiary of Atomenergoprom OJSC).

The plant will have two 1,170MW reactors and will generate over 17bln KWh a year and employ as many as 1,000 people. At the peak time the construction will involve as many as 8,000 people. The 1st reactor is supposed to be launched in 2017. The plant will be situated in Navashino district of Nizhniy Novgorod region.

The analysis of the power and capacity balance in Nizhniy Novgorod region has shown that in 2007 the region was short of 1,800MW while in 2020 it will need as much as 4,000MW.

This is a socially significant project: it will give the region 40bln RUR in profit tax, 50bln RUR in property tax, 1bln RUR in land tax and 50bln RUR in transport tax.