It’s time for another segment of “Russian Nuclear Recreation.” (For likbez, see previous posts on nuclear camping and nuclear cycling.)

This (looong) weekend you should consider fishing at a pond next to a nuclear power plant. This is what over seventy people did a few days back as part of a fishing tournament put on by the Kursk NPP at Semyonovsky pond near Kurchatov, according to this press release...

Present and former employees of Kursk NPP and five more companies… took part in the tournament. There were lots of women among the fishermen.

At first, the fishers cleaned up the shore of the pond. They fished for as long as four hours and caught lots of fish: some of the fishers caught several kilograms.

The winner of the tournament Viktor Mezentsev from Decontamination Department of Kursk NPP caught 3.179 kg. He was followed by Anatoly Koptev (TsRP) and Viktor Naymushin (Kursk NPP). Pensioner Tatiana Khrushkova caught the biggest fish.

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“We have never seen so many fishers in one and the same place. Fishing is not just catching fish but talking and exchanging views and ideas. Such events strengthen our corporate and communal spirit,” [chairman of the Trade Union of Kursk NPP Alexander] Apalkov said.

I agree with Apalkov, but I still think that Blinky says it better!