OREANDA-NEWS. On July 25, 2007 a roundtable on ecological and radiation safety was conducted at the Public Information Center of Balakovo NPP, reported the press-centre of Balakovo NPP.

The event was organized for the tenants of the Balakovo boarding house for old and disabled people on their own initiative. During a 1.5-hour meeting specialists of Balakovo NPP - the head of the Ifnormation Department Yuri Terekhov, the head of the Radiation Safety Department Viktor Maximov, the head of the Environment Protection Department Stanislav Riazanov and the chief expert on professional diseases Irina Zmovik - told the guests about the plant’s social activities, personnel and safety policies, emergency prevention measures. After the meeting the veterans made a tour of the Center. They were strongly impressed with the Center’s exposition and expressed wish to visit it again. They saw with their own eyes that Balakovo NPP is an efficient and ecologically safe facility operated by highly qualified competent personnel.

100% of the veterans expressed a positive attitude towards nuclear energy and its development prospects. 88.9% said that the information they had received at the Center was very useful. 68.4% said that nuclear energy is the most promising sector of the Russian power engineering.