Ignalina nuclear power station, INPP - Ignalinos Atominė Elektrinė, IAE

31152 Visagino municipality - Visaginas, Lithuania (Lithuania, Vilnius) (Utena County)

A particular attention is paid to personal protective equipment - at the entrance to the controlled zone you will be given special clothes to wear during the excurtion. In accordance with the rules of stay at this facility, tourists are dressed with special protective clothing.

The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station. Due to the plant's similarities to the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in both reactor design and lack of a robust containment building, Lithuania agreed to close the plant as part of its accession agreement to the European Union. Unit 1 was closed in December 2004; Unit 2, which counted for 25% of Lithuania's electricity generating capacity and supplied about 70% of Lithuania's electrical demand, was closed on December 31, 2009.

The IINPP contained two Soviet-designed RBMK-1500 water-cooled graphite-moderated channel-type power reactors. After the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986, the reactor was de-rated to 1,360 MW. Each unit of the power plant was equipped with two K-750-65/3000 turbines with 800 MW generators.

VISIT TO CONTROLLED ZONE AT INPP

PURPOSE: Private excursions are organized for persons, who are interested in nuclear energy, mainly in INPP construction history, operation and capacity, main safety systems, decommissioning plan and forthcoming repositories for radioactive waste. Tourists have a possibility to observe how dismantling and decontamination works are being performed by the INPP personnel own forces. The activity is financed by International INPP Decommissioning Support Fund and Ignalina Programme Fund.

The tour inside includes central hall, or reactor hall, control room and turbine hall. These are the main places to visit inside.

PROHIBITION: Inside tours are organized only for adults (above 18 years old). Pregnant or (and)  intoxicated with psychotropic substances are not allowed to enter. Unfortunately, tourists will not be able to take own camera inside, but INPP tour manager will bring camera in order to help with the pictures needed.

Operating simulator
Located in Visaginas, several kilometres away from INPP, is the operating simulator of the INPP block control panel. Set up when the power plant was being built, the simulator has been used for training employees and exploring solutions to emergency situations. During excursions, visitors have the chance to see how the power plant control simulator in operation. Incidentally, this simulator served as a model for the Chernobyl creative team.

The simulator is the most visited object in Visaginas. The “nuclear town” was built in 1975 to accommodate the employees of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.

VISIT TO INPP EXHIBITION HALL
PURPOSE: Visits are organized for schoolchildren and other persons, who are interested in nuclear energy, mainly in INPP construction history, operation and capacity, main safety systems, decommissioning plan and forthcoming repositories for radioactive waste.

LOCATION: At the exhibition hall you can find a model of RBMK Reactor Unit; a model of a fuel assembly and a model of the spent fuel cask CASTOR. You can also watch video films (Lithuanian, Russian, English) about Ignalina NPP. With the help of a special TV equipment, you can watch the direct view of the plant, namely: the Reactor Hall, the Turbine Hall, the Spent Fuel Storage Pool and Control room.

DURATION: ~ 1 hour. Visits are organized only on weekdays and in working time. Visit may start at 9 am but no later than 3 pm.
MAX NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: up to 30 people.

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