Kolskaya APS: the WAO APS certificates were presented to the workers of the atomic station

24 workers of Kolskaya APS got the certificates of World association of the organizations, which exploit atomic power-stations (WAO APS) for their contribution into performing the WAO mission on increasing security and reliability of APS exploitation. On January, 26 they were presented to the specialists by the chief engineer of atomic station Alexander Ionov.

The mission was held at the Kolskaya APS from 14 ^th to 17^th December 2009 under the direction of the councilor of Moscow centre of WAO APS Andrey Nosov and special invitee councilor of Paris centre of WAO APS Alena Ushe.

On opinion of A. Nosov, the technical support mission, conducted at the Kolskaya APS, had help Russian specialists to obtain new knowledge and try them in practice, which will even more improve the system of personnel work and provide positive influence on the general security level of the atomic station.  

Kolskaya APS is the subsidiary of OSC «Concern Rosenergoatom ». The station is situated in 200 km to the south from Murmansk at the bank of the lake Imandra. The launch of the power-generating unit №1 of Kolskaya APS took place in 1973. At the present time 4 power-generating units are being exploited with reactors of VVER type with capacity of 440 МWt each. Kolskaya APS is the supplier of electric power for the Murmansk region and Karelia.

The operational information about radiation environment near the Russian APSs and other objects of atomic branch is presented at the cite www.russianatom.ru.