The press service of "Clean Arctic" announced the completion of the Arctic expedition, where ten winners of the "Ticket to the Arctic" competition went. Students and young scientists spent a whole week getting acquainted with the infrastructure of companies actively developing the Arctic direction: Rosatom, Norilsk Nickel, PhosAgro, Novatek and EL5-Energo.
The expedition participants saw the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, the Monchegorsk site of the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company, FSUE Atomflot, the Center for the Construction of Large-Capacity Offshore Structures, the Kirov Mine, the Kola Wind Power Plant and other objects.
The competition was implemented by the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Clean Arctic” within the framework of the federal project “Popularization of Science and Technology”. Its winners were students and young scientists from Blagoveshchensk, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Moscow, Obninsk, St. Petersburg and Saratov.
The winners spent the first two days of the expedition at the Kirov branch of JSC Apatit, the production site of the PhosAgro company in the Murmansk region. They visited open-pit mining operations at the Vostochny mine, where they talked with the main geologist of the mine, and also went down into the underground of the Kirov mine to a depth of 300 meters.
Then the winners went to Monchegorsk. There they visited the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company and got acquainted with the new lean laboratory, where the main technological processes were simulated and interactive prototypes of equipment were presented.
At the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, which is the northernmost nuclear power plant in Europe, the winners of the competition were able to communicate with plant employees and learn about the prospects for the development of the Kola Peninsula. Also during the expedition, they visited the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Atomflot, where they visited the world’s first nuclear-powered icebreaker “Lenin” and the serial universal nuclear-powered icebreaker “Sibir” of Project 22220.
The expedition program also included the NOVATEK Center for the Construction of Large-Capacity Offshore Structures, the world’s first plant for the serial production of natural gas liquefaction lines on gravity-type foundations. The final point of the trip was a trip to the Kola Wind Power Plant - the world's largest wind farm in the Arctic Circle. The guys visited the substation, where all the electricity from each wind turbine is collected and then transferred to the general power system.
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