OREANDA-NEWS. July 16, 2007. On July 21–28 Leningrad NPP will host the 6th International Festival of Young Nuclear Power Engineers, reported the press-centre of Leningrad NPP.

The opening ceremony will take place on July 21 at 8:00 PM. Each day will have its own “topic du jour”: contests, role-playing games, sports events, scientific conference, “School of Leaders,” meeting of representatives of the youth organizations of the participant NPPs, meeting with LNPP managers and municipal and regional officials.

All ten Russian NPPs (Balakovo, Belyarsk, Bilibino, Volgodonsk, Kalinin, Kola, Kursk, Leningrad, Novovoronezh and Smolensk), Ignalina NPP (Lithuania), Chernobyl NPP and Energoatom (Ukraine) and veterans of Desnay Movement will take part in the festival.

The 1st Festival of Young Nuclear Power Engineer was held in Lithuania in 1988 when the Komsomol leader of Ignalina NPP Alexander Bolgarov decided to organize a summer camp for youths working at NPPs and living in satellite cities. A picturesque meadow on the shore of Lake Luodis was chosen as venue of annual Dysnai.

The friendship of young nuclear power engineers proved to be firmer than the USSR and Komsomol. In 2001 the youth leader of Smolensk NPP Denis Merenkov initiated the 1St International Festival of Young Nuclear Power “Desnay.”

In 2003 the youth leader of Leningrad NPP Aleksey Migrov suggested holding the festival on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. In July 2003 young nuclear power engineers first met in Sosnovy Bor, satellite city of Leningrad NPP and called their festival “Chaika.”
 
Since then they have met annually under multi-colored tents of Atomic KVN – Club of Merry and Quick-Witted Nuclear Power Engineers. Each year old friends meet for a week to talk about life and work, to joke and to sing. This is a kind of informal professional association. But its founders are not just cogs in the wheel, they are nerves of a complex organism: they are the first to react to whatever happening inside and outside their industry. If we listen to them we will avoid many acute and chronic problems. And as long as the camp fires of Dysnai-Desnay-Chaika are burning the key resource of our industry – socially innovative people – is alive.