Kola Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has allocated 800 million rubles for environmental projects, according to data in the environmental safety report.

For example, last year, a new ultraviolet wastewater disinfection system was launched at the NPP treatment facilities. The lighting at the production site was equipped with economical and safe LED lamps. Also, separate waste collection was organized here in order to recycle it.

Every year, the company organizes more than a thousand and a half measures to study environmental objects, including testing of atmospheric air, precipitation, soil, study of bottom sediments and natural water. Along with that, the NPP takes samples of grass, mushrooms, berries and fish.

As the results show, since the plant opened, the radiation environment here remains as favorable as it was before its launch.

According to the regional Ministry of Natural Resources, the specific weight of the power plant`s emissions in the air is 0.03% in the total emissions in the Murmansk region.

It is necessary to remind, this nuclear power plant provides with electricity more than 50 % of consumers in the Murmansk region and in the north of Karelia, these are not only cities and towns, but also industrial enterprises in the subjects. At the same time, nuclear power has virtually no impact on the environment, as electricity is generated here without burning fossil fuel and emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, said Vasiliy Omelchuk, head of the NPP.

The plant has repeatedly received awards for environmental protection activities at the federal, regional and industry levels. For example, last year it won a competition as an environmentally exemplary organization in the nuclear industry.

Earlier, it became known that Leningrad NPP-2 started the physical startup of the new power unit, namely, the first fuel assembly was loaded into the reactor. The next stage will be a power start-up, during which the power unit will independently produce electricity.

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Author: Ksenia Gustova