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[en] In the last couple of years Finns have participated in the improvement of the Leningrad and Kola nuclear power plants. At the Leningrad plant, the principal Finnish partner has been The Finnish Centre for Radiation and Nuclear Safety, and at the Kola plant, the power company Imatran Voima. The Leningrad plant staff has had a very positive attitude to this cooperation. Improvements have been in the procedures and culture of the operating organization, in inspections ensuring the quality of components, and in fire safety. Imatran Voima is responsible for planning and consultation for the targets of improvement selected jointly at Kola. The power plant staff and Russian planning organizations prepare most of the detailed technical plans and make the necessary acquisitions. At the Kola plant, too, some improvements involve technical equipment, others the operating procedures. (orig.)

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[en] The more modern of the Russian VVER pressurized water reactors (PWRs) in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet block may be retrofittable with upgraded safety systems, most particularly in the field of control systems, which will bring them up to standards acceptable in the western world. The application of a state-of-the-art control system used in the most recently constructed PWR power plants in the western world is included in the modernization programme to the Temelin plant in the Czech Republic and has been designed in detail. (author)

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