Irina Khotina, Chairman of “Chernobyl Union”, the Kostroma Regional Public Organization

— Construction of the Central NPP in the Kostroma Region is a definite necessity

On October 20th a session of the Community Council for the issues of nuclear power utilization in the Kostroma Region has been held in the Kostroma Region. The major issue on the agenda was the Central NPP construction in Buyskiy District. It gathered the deputies of all levels, the leaders of public opinion, public organizations and Mass Media in the Kostroma Region, the delegates from the regional and Vologda construction businesses, and Rosatom SK, Energoatom Concern, JSC, Atomenergoproject Research and Design Institute, the Institute for Safe Development of Nuclear Power Industry of the Russian Academy of Science.

Irina Khotina, Chairman of “Chernobyl Union”, the Kostroma Regional Public Organization:

Construction of the Central NPP in the Kostroma Region is a definite necessity, for it will mean new jobs, new investors and maintaining the roads and the regional infrastructure in order, at last! I spent 10 months in Chernobyl, I was a liquidator there, but I stand for the Central NPP construction in the Kostroma Region.

HISTORICAL REFERENCE:

Construction of the Central NPP is suggested at Buyskiy District of the Kostroma Region, 10 km to the northwest of Buy City, on the right bank of Kostroma River.

At the Central NPP construction provisions are made for designing of the power-generating units #1 and #2 with the total capacity of at least 2,340 MWt. The rated capacity per 1 power-generating unit shall be at least 1,170 mWt (e); the service life of a power-generating unit shall make 60 years; power efficiency factor (net) is at least 34.7%; mean average operating ratio at the rated capacity – 0.92; predicted capacity factor for a power-generating unit – 0.90); auxiliary power consumption – under 7.0% of the total output; specific number of industrial and manufacturing employees providing maintenance services -0.43 pers./MWt.