Insurance Survey at the construction site of Floating Nuclear Power Unit “Academician Lomonosov”

August 10-11, 2015, RANI inspectors held the first insurance inspection at the construction sites of the Floating Nuclear Power Unit "Academician Lomonosov" (hereinafter referred to as the FPU).

The FPU is being constructed at present by order of JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom" (hereinafter – JSC "CREA") at the site of LLC "Baltic plant – shipbuilding" (hereinafter – Baltic plant).
The customer of the design documentation and the construction of FPU is a branch of JSC "CREA" - "Directorate for construction of floating nuclear power plants", Moscow.

The General designer of Floating Nuclear Power Plant is CJSC "Atomenergo", Saint-Petersburg.
The General designer of the FPU is OJSC Central design Bureau "Iceberg", Saint-Petersburg.
The General contractor for the construction of FPU is OJSC "Baltic plant-Shipbuilding", Saint- Petersburg.

According to the decision of the Customer – JSC "CREA" the lead FPU after the construction, testing, transportation will be located and put into operation as a part of the first Russian Floating nuclear heating power plant (hereafter FNTPP) in water area of port Pevek, which is the administrative center of Chaun municipal area in Chukotka Autonomous District.

The main purpose of the construction of the FNTPP is providing the local consumers with electricity and thermal energy in an isolated part of Magadan electric energy system of the Chaun-Bilibino power center of "JSC Chukotenergo" for the period of the planned decommissioning of power units of Bilibino NPP and the Chaun thermal power plant and even after its completion.

The FNTPP will consist of :

• A vessel with a floating power unit (FPU) with two reactor systems of KLT-40C type

• hydraulic engineering installations

• onshore facilities to ensure the technological cycle of electric and thermal energy transfer, including all onshore equipment for handling nuclear fuel (fresh and spent fuel)

• facilities for Security services

The Insurance Survey was mainly aimed:

• to assess the condition of the construction site of LLC "Baltic plant – Shipbuilding" and analyze the safety level of installation and construction works;
  

• to assess the insurance risk of the site in order to arrange nuclear third party insurance cover for the process of supplying  FPU with fresh nuclear fuel, for loading it into the reactor, start-up period, installation and construction works period and possible material damage.
  

The representatives of RANI during the Survey were:

Mr.S.Babenko, Technical director of RANI, the leader of the team

Mr.A. Nikitin, Deputy technical director of RANI, Inspector

Mr.V. Vashchilo, Deputy technical director of RANI, Inspector

The Survey was carried out in accordance with the current Guidelines of the international pooling system and the Guidelines of RANI adapted for the inspection of a unique project of the Russian nuclear industry - FNHPP. The Survey was held in accordance with the program developed by JSC "SOGAZ", Baltic plant, taking into account the recommendations of RANI experts. The inspectors were provided with all necessary documents, information and were allowed to access the facilities at the site.

RANI inspectors highly appreciated the assistance and cooperation of the representatives of CREA, the management and the staff of the Baltic plant.