OREANDA-NEWS. April 3, 2009. A delegation of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), led by the deputy director of the organization Ahmad Fayyaz-Bakhsh has visited Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant and the construction site of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant-2 on Apr 1 2009.

Earlier, the Iranian guests visited the 3rd and 4th units of Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant.

They were, particularly, interested in the future of the RBMK reactors of Leningrad NPP, the history of the engineering and improvement of the plant’s simulators, its personnel policy, the stages and deadlines of the Leningrad NPP-2 project, the design service life of new WWER reactors and the supervisory functions of the owner and coordinator of the LNPP-2 project.

The guests asked lots of questions while visiting the construction site of the 1st unit of Leningrad NPP-2. They wanted to know how cooling towers were built in so northern regions near the Gulf of Finland as well as how big the project was and how quickly it was being implemented.

Fayyaz-Bakhsh said that it was the first time they had seen RBMK (graphite-moderated channel-type reactors) and were very grateful to Director of Leningrad NPP Valery Lebedev for the opportunity to visit the plant.

Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant is the branch of Energoatom Concern OJSC (100% subsidiary of Atomenergoprom OJSC). It is situated in Sosnovy Bor, 80km west of St.Petersburg on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. It is the country’s first nuclear power plants with RBMK-1000 (graphite-moderated channel-type reactor). It has four 1,000MW reactors.

Iran started to build its first nuclear power plant, Bushehr NPP, in late XX. Russian Atomstroyexport is building Bushehr on a turnkey under a contract signed on Jan 8 1995 and addendum #1 signed on Aug 29 1998 in the framework of agreement between the governments of Russia and Iran. The construction is over, now the project is at a start-up stage.