Sosnovy Bor

An emergency stop of the second power unit of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant took place on Friday, December 18, at 13:50. The reason for the stop and cooling of the reactor was a sudden leak of radioactive steam from a faulty pipe in one of the rooms of the turbine shop.

Five young adventurers of St. Petersburg demonstrated the possibility of entering without problem the site of Leningrad NPP-2 that is under construction. The first of the four units of the VVER-1200 and the two cooling towers of 170 m in height are planned to being use next year. Now, in the final stage of construction, terrorists might have brought in explosives that could then be used when the station will work. Such an approach by terrorists was implemented several years ago in Chechnya. Then in an explosion the president of Chechnya died.

Lnpp-2 Is Sited In The Environmentally-stressed Region.

Industrial and port projects of about 20 billion Euro are developed on the 100-km shoreline of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland (SCGF) stretching between the border with Estonia and St. Petersburg. It means that up to 200 thousand Euro will be invested into the destruction of each shoreline meter.

Baltic Newsletter #89
On December 15, about 3 a.m. an explosion in the electrically heated furnace occurred. It was one of the furnaces belonging to ECOMET-S, a private company located on the territory of Leningrad NPP and specializing in the reprocessing of contaminated scrap metal by melting. The molten metal having the temperature of 1200°С was ejected from the furnace and hit three workers staying in the production unit.

Baltic News № 87

"Nuclear Taj Mahal" a simulator centre for Indian nuclear submariners will start operation in September 2005 on the South coast of the Gulf of Finland in t. Sosnovy Bor (80 km West of St. Petersburg).

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