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Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant

Footage of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP) | Finnish border, about 70 kilometres west of St. Petersburg town of Sosnovy Bor. Our camera crew visited LNPP, a top security site, in 1996. Unit 1 is considered to be the oldest one in the country. LNPP is the primary source of electricity Russia's North-western region, supplying some 50% of the energy to St Petersburg Leningrad region. In 2003 LNPP celebrated its 30th anniversary Atomic industry specialists often draw attention to the truly crumbling state of the plant, which runs four fatally flawed Chernobyl-style RBMK-1000 reactors. Scientists insist that the reactor should be stopped and taken off the grid. It was shut down in 2003, re-launched for further modernization. In 1974 there was an Explosion at Leningrad nuclear power plant. In 1996 foreign were tasked with the first comprehensive safety evaluation of the plant.

Interviews with scientists and engineer about Leningrad NPP safety and ecological problems in the region. | waste from the plant routinely pours into the Gulf of Finland. LNPP is causing serious ecological danger to the Baltic Sea area. We filmed in the town hospital, talked to doctors and scientists. Alexey Yablokov, former environmental advisor to Yeltsin, talks on nuclear power plant impact on environment, in particular on safety of Chernobyl NPP’s sarcophagus. 9 million people still inhabit the areas contaminated by the Chernobyl catastrophe. Alexey Yablokov gives an interview in his office located in the Institute of palaeontology.

An interview to medical specialists of St. Petersburg consultative-diagnostic centre pointing on increasing level of children pathologies caused by LNPP. The experts of centre’s laboratory investigate chromosome changes since 1970-x, but nowadays it suffers from the lack of financial support. A press-conference of LNPP director Valery Lebedev. He speaks on the plant’s history, its structure, control procedures of the power plant, especially of older reactors.

Also depicted are interiors of LNPP including detailed views of reactors, its operating instruments and machines; plant cantina where workers buy food and cover it in polyethylene as radiation protection; long shots of LNPP’s facade and the area; views of the town of Sosnovy Bor; interiors of children’s house.