Category: Business
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ROSATOM and WATER AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS to Cooperate in the Sphere of Desalination and Water Conditioning
WATER AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS and Rusatom Smart Utilities, within the framework of Second Summit Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum, signed the memorandum of understanding. Based on the document, the parties plan to cooperate for the implementation of desalination, water conditioning and water purification projects. “According to the UN, today more than two billion people suffer…
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ROSATOM and Burundi sign Memorandum on personnel training for the development of technologies in peaceful atomic energy
On July 27, 2023, Rosatom and the Republic of Burundi signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for personnel training and education in peaceful atomic energy. The document was signed by Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, and Albert Shingiro, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation in the Republic of Burundi. The signing took place on…
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Russia and Burundi sign Memorandum on peaceful atomic energy cooperation
July 27 2023 – The Governments of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Burundi have signed a Memorandum on cooperation in the field of peaceful atomic energy. The memorandum was signed by Alexey Likhachev, Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, from the Russian side, and Albert Shingiro, Minister of Foreign Affairs…
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More than 10100 students participated in the science Olympiad “Precise Energy 2023”, organized by ROSATOM
The award ceremony for The Precise Energy-2023 Science Olympiad in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, organized by ROSATOM Engineering Division (JSC Atomstroyexport), took place on the 26th of July at the Russian House in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This Olympiad was hosted in collaboration with ANO Energy of the Future, and was supported by the Russian House…
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ROSATOM will act as the general partner of the Russia-Africa Forum
ROSATOM will act as the general partner of the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit, Economic and Humanitarian Forum to be held on July, 27-28 at EXPOFORUM Congress and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg. Discussion of the joint nuclear solutions, particularly in the area of nuclear power engineering, nuclear medicine, food security assurance, is planned within the framework…
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Installation of ventilation stack is completed at Unit 2 of Kursk NPP-2
Specialists of Kursk Branch Office of Trest RosSEM LLC (subsidiary construction organization of ROSATOM Engineering Division) completed the installation of ventilation stack of the auxiliary reactor building of Kursk NPP-2 Unit 2. The installation of the complex metal structure was carried out in three main stages. After the stack elements had been manufactured in the…
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ROSATOM presents innovative developments in nuclear fuel at international TopFuel conference in China
Russian experts have participated in the international scientific and technical conference TopFuel 2023 held in Xian, China. The event was dedicated to the development and operation of nuclear fuel for pressurised water reactors (PWR), boiling water reactors (BWR), and VVER-type reactors. Specialists from TVEL Fuel Company and other ROSATOM enterprises involved in nuclear fuel production…
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ROSATOM participated in International BRICS Expert Forum on Nuclear Medicine
On July 20, 2023, the official opening ceremony of the International BRICS Expert Forum on Nuclear Medicine took place in Moscow. The Forum was arranged by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and ROSATOM. The Forum is preceding the BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting scheduled for August 4, 2023 in South Africa. The Forum…
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ROSATOM reminded about deadline of the application campaign for the 3rd season of #WEARETOGETHER prize international track
The application campaign for the 3rd season of the international track “We are together” of the prize #WEARETOGETHER (annual international event aimed at encouraging foreign citizens and organizations for their selfless contribution to solving important humanitarian problems and strengthening international humanitarian cooperation) will last until July 20th,2023. Within the framework of the track “We are…
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Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, visited the El-Dabaa NPP construction site in Egypt
On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in the course of the joint visit of a high-level delegation to El-Dabaa NPP, Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, met with Dr. Mohamed Shaker, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Sources and Dr. Amged El-Wakeel, Chairman of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority of Egypt. The delegation made a tour…
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BAEC Has Been Licensed to Import Nuclear Fuel to Rooppur NPP
The official ceremony to hand over class B, D, E licenses for the nuclear fuel handling, storage and transportation, to the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), the operator in Bangladesh has been held in the city of Pabna (the People’s Republic of Bangladesh). The document was issued by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA).…
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Simulator for personnel training delivered to Akkuyu NPP construction site
July 12, 2023, Büyükeceli, Mersin Province, Türkiye. – Full-scale simulator (FSS), a precise replica of power-and-control units of the first nuclear power plant in Türkiye, has been delivered to the Akkuyu NPP Construction Site. The training equipment will enable practical training, licensing and advance training of the operating personnel of power units before commissioning of…
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ROSATOM started the first phase of construction of Paks II NPP units
On July 3, 2023, at the Paks II NPP construction site, the general contractor of the project, JSC ASE (Engineering Division of Rosatom) started works on the first phase of construction of the new Paks NPP units (Hungary) with the construction of the groundwater cut-off. The construction of the groundwater cut-off is carried out in…
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ROSATOM Increasing Russian Isotope Supplies to India
Isotope – Regional Alliance JSC (a Rusatom Healthcare company) delivered the first shipment of germanium-68/gallium-68 (Ge-68/Ga-68) generators manufactured by Cyclotron CJSC (Obninsk) under the new contract with Esente Healthcare, a local medical product distributor, to the Republic of India. According to the contract terms, Isotope JSC will supply the Indian side with 40 units of…
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ROSATOM and Carbon Zero Sign Contract to Register Green Certificates
WindSGC-2 (part of NovaWind, ROSATOM’s wind power division) and Carbon Zero LLC signed a contract to maintain a register of green certificates. According to the contract, Carbon Zero will maintain a register of certificates issued for the electric power generated at ROSATOM’s renewable energy facilities as required by the green electricity certification standard. Three of…
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ROSATOM Commissioned Phase 3 of Kuzminskaya Wind Farm
Located in Stavropol Krai, the wind power station consists of 64 wind turbines with an installed capacity of 160 MW. As confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, 68% of the wind farm parts and components have been sourced locally. “Kuzminskaya is our eighth wind farm in Southern Russia. The first 100 MW…
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Rosatom Wind Farms Have Generated Over 1 Billion kWh of Electricity Year to Date
The wind farms operated by NovaWind, Rosatom’s wind power division, generated a total of 1.1 billion kWh of electric power in the first six months of 2023, up 110 million kWh year on year. In the first half of 2022, their total output exceeded 987 million kWh. For half a year, the wind farms prevented…
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Science Festival organized with the support of ROSATOM held for the first time in Myanmar
From June 28 to June 30, Yangon (Myanmar) hosted the Science Festival, organized by ROSATOM and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Myanmar. The event was held simultaneously at the Information Center for Nuclear Technologies and the Yangon Technological University. The Science Festival is held in the countries of ROSATOM presence and traditionally brings…
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A company of ROSATOM and YLB signed an agreement for cooperation in lithium mining and production in Bolivia
On June 29, 2023, Uranium One Group JSC (an entity of ROSATOM) and YLB (Lithium Deposits of Bolivia, Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos) Bolivian State Company signed a framework agreement on the construction of lithium carbonate mining and production complex in Potosí Department, Bolivia. Today lithium is in the mainstream of the green economy; it is…
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Russia and the Republic of the Union of Myanmar reached a new level of cooperation in the field of nuclear energy
On June 27-28, 2023, a delegation from ROSATOM, led by Deputy Director General Nikolay Spassky, embarked on a working visit to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The primary objective of this trip was to evaluate the initial outcomes of the collaborative efforts between the two nations in the realm of peaceful nuclear energy…
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Fifth tier of internal containment installed at AKKUYU NPP UNIT 2
June 26, 2023, Büyükeceli, Turkiye. – Fifth tier of the, one of the key components of the nuclear power plant’s safety system that protects and provides leak-tightness of the reactor compartment, was installed at Akkuyu NPP Unit 2. The internal containment consists of steel lining and a special concrete mix that is produced directly at…
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ROSATOM starts testing MOX fuel for VVER reactors
The Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors (a facility of ROSATOM in Dimitrovgrad) started tests of VVER type fuel rods with uranium-plutonium MOX fuel in the MIR research reactor. Based on the results of irradiation and special experiments, Rosatom scientists are committed to validate efficiency and reliability of MOX fuel operation in VVER reactors units, which…
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ROSATOM and AKKUYU NUCLEAR part in NPPES-2023
23 June 2023, Istanbul, Türkiye – ROSATOM and AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC took part in the Nuclear Power Plants V Expo and IX Summit (NPPES), which was held on 21-22 June in Istanbul, Türkiye. ROSATOM acted as the main partner of the annual industry forum, Türkiye’s largest business platform in the area of nuclear technologies and…
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Another round of consultations with the IAEA on the situation at the Zaporozhskaya NPP held in Kaliningrad on June 23
Another round of consultations with the IAEA on the situation at the Zaporozhskaya NPP held in Kaliningrad on June 23. The Russian delegation was headed by Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev. The meeting was also attended by Alexander Trembitsky, Head of Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia (ROSTECHNADZOR); Vladimir Mashevsky, Head…
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At Power Unit No. 7 of Tianwan NPS, the Inner Containment Dome’s Upper Part Has Been Installed in the Reactor Building
In the reactor building of Tianwan NPS power unit No. 7, which is being built in China with involvement of the Rosatom Engineering Division, the upper part of the inner containment dome weighing 214 tons and being 36 meters in diameter has been installed in the design position. The works to install the inner containment…
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In India, within the frames of the celebration of the Day of Russia, a presentation of ROSATOM’s contribution to achieving sustainable development goals was held
On June 15, in the city of Trivandrum (Republic of India), the celebration of the Day of Russia was organized by Ratish Nair, the Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation, Director of the Russian House in Trivandrum. The event was attended by representatives of the government and the public of the state of Kerala, consular…
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Joint Russian-Turkish educational dual-diploma Master Program for training turkish engineers at Akkuyu NPP to be launched
June 17, 2023, Büyükeceli, Türkiye – Implementation of the Akkuyu NPP Personnel Training Program continues in Türkiye. The list of students who will join Russian universities to major in nuclear engineering was announced at the coordination meeting in video conference format between representatives of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of…
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ROSATOM Discusses Russia’s Progress in Renewable Energy at SPIEF 2023
Grigoriy Nazarov, Chief Executive Officer at NovaWind (ROSATOM’s wind power division), took part in the Renewable Energy: Low Electricity Prices or Technological Sovereignty session held on June 15 at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). The session brought together industry experts from the government authorities, renewable energy market players, renewable energy equipment manufacturers, and…
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A plenary session devoted to the nuclear industry role in technological sovereignty assurance was held at SPIEF-2023 with the support of ROSATOM
The plenary session Role of Nuclear Industry in Technological Sovereignty Assurance and Future Technologies was held on June, 16, 2023 at the XXVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2023) with the support of ROSATOM. The event was attended by: Thaung Han, Minister of Electric Power of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; Mikhail Chudakov,…
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ROSATOM will establish a joint venture for the construction of energy fleet based on nuclear floating power units for overseas markets
On June 15, 2023, within the scope of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an agreement was signed between ROSATOM and TSS Group on the basic conditions for developing an energy fleet based on floating power units (FPU) with RITM-200M reactors for overseas markets. TSS Group is Russia’s largest developer and manufacturer of integrated well…
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ROSATOM and Rostechnadzor signed a supplementary agreement on development of nuclear infrastructure in the “newcomer” countries
ROSATOM and the Federal Service for Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision (Rostechnadzor) signed a supplementary agreement on interaction for support of the nuclear infrastructure development in the “newcomer” foreign countries on June, 15, 2023 in St.Petersburg on the sidelines of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Alexey Likhachev, Director General, signed the document on behalf of…
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ROSATOM and DP World agree to jointly develop the eurasian logistics
June 15 in Saint-Petersburg ROSATOM and DP World today signed an agreement to jointly develop the Eurasian logistics and container shipping along the Northern Sea Route (NSR), a potential new trade route connecting Asia and Europe, which would add much-needed resilience to the global trade landscape. The signing ceremony was attended by ROSATOM Director General…
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SPIEF 2023: Russian and Mongolian companies signed an agreement on strategic cooperation
On June 15, on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Rusatom International Network, and the Mongolian company Dayan Deerkh Energy Ltd. signed an agreement on strategic cooperation. From the Russian side, the document was signed by the President of Rusatom International Network Vadim Titov, and from the Mongolian side the document…
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ROSATOM plans to construct the world’s first nuclear power plant with a capacity of up to 10 MW in Chukotka
ROSATOM and the Government of Chukotka have signed an agreement to collaborate on the implementation of a small nuclear power plant project in the region based on the latest Russian SHELF-M reactor plant. The agreement was signed during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Alexei Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, and Vladislav Kuznetsov, Acting Governor…
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Alexei Likhachev took part in the Northern Sea Route: New Challenges session at SPIEF 2023
Director General of ROSATOM Alexei Likhachev took part in the Northern Sea Route: New Challenges session at SPIEF 2023. The session highlighted the new significance of the Northern Sea Route as the most important transport route connecting the vast Arctic territories of Russia, as well as the North-West and the Far East of the country.…
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ROSATOM, Ministry of Electric Power of Myanmar, Primus Advanced Technologies Ltd. Signed Memorandum of Understanding on Feasibility Study of 172 MW Wind Farms Construction
June 15th, within the framework of the XXVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ROSATOM’s wind power division NovaWind, Ministry of Electric Power of Myanmar, and Myanmar’s company Primus Advanced Technologies Ltd. signed a memorandum to launch feasibility study for wind farms construction. The document was signed by NovaWind CEO Grigoriy Nazarov, Deputy Director General of…
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ROSATOM and Zeya & Associates Co. have agreed to develop non-energy nuclear technologies in Myanmar
On June 15, a memorandum of understanding was signed in St. Petersburg between JSC «Rusatom Healthcare» (part of ROSATOM) and Zeya & Associates Co., Ltd (Myanmar). The memorandum was signed during the second day of the 26th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Igor Obrubov, Director General of JSC «Rusatom Healthcare» and Zeya Mon, Chairman…
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ROSATOM, Ministry of Electric Power of Myanmar, Zeya & Associates Signed Memorandum of Understanding on Feasibility Study of 200 MW Wind Farm Construction
June 15th, within the framework of the XXVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ROSATOM’s wind power division NovaWind, Ministry of Electric Power of Myanmar, and Myanmar’s Zeya & Associates signed a memorandum to launch feasibility study for a wind farm construction. The document was signed by NovaWind CEO Grigoriy Nazarov, Deputy Director General of the…
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ROSATOM presented its healthcare products at Africa Health ExCon 2023 in Cairo
The second Pan-African exhibition and conference, Africa Health ExCon 2023, took place in Cairo, Egypt. A key event in healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors brought together some 60,000 delegates and participants from over 90 countries. The exhibition took place annually under the auspices of H.E. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Representatives from ROSATOM enterprises actively participated…
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Rosatom Engineering Division signs an agreement on strategic partnership with Rostelecom at the SPIEF
Within the framework of the XXVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Atomstroyexport JSC (ASE) and Rostelecom PJSC have signed an agreement on strategic partnership in the field of implementation of digital transformation projects. The document was signed by Olga Tolstunova, Vice President for Digitalization and IT of ASE JSC, and Valery Ermakov, Senior Vice…
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ROSATOM’s Engineering Division presented its experience in digitalization of El-Dabaa NPP project at the International Project Management Forum
Olga Tolstunova, Vice President for Digitalization and IT of ASE JSC, and Dr. Mohammed Saad Dwiddar, Project Manager of El-Dabaa NPP (Arab Republic of Egypt, General Designer and General Contractor is ROSATOM Engineering Division), have taken part in the International Forum “Project Management. Response to New Challenges” that is being held on June 14 in…
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Kuzminskaya Wind Farm Feeds First Electricity to Russian National Grid
ROSATOM’s Stavropol-based Kuzminskaya Wind Farm began to supply electric power to Russian national grid. With an installed capacity of 160 MW, the wind power station consists of 64 wind turbines. As confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, 68% of the wind farm equipment is sourced locally. “Kuzminskaya is our eighth wind farm…
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Concreting of internal containment dome completed at Akkuyu NPP Unit NO. 1
May 31, 2023, Büyükeceli, Mersin Province, Türkiye. – One of construction milestones at Akkuyu NPP Power Unit No.1, namely concreting of the dome of the internal containment (IC), which ensures the air-tightness of the reactor building, has been completed. 422 tons of rebars were installed and more than 3200 m3 of concrete were poured to…
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ROSATOM takes part in the Meeting of the Committee on Non-Power Applications of Nuclear Technologies under the IRC MBIR Advisory Board
May 26, 2023, Tashkent, Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP, under the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan) hosted a meeting of the Committee on Non-power Applications of Nuclear Technologies under the Advisory Board of the International Research Center Based on the MBIR Reactor (IRC MBIR). The event was attended, both face-to-face and online, by over 40…
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Rostekhnadzor has issued a license for nuclear facilities construction to Atomenergoproekt JSC
At the beginning of May, Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) issued a new license to Atomenergoproekt JSC (Engineering Division of Rosatom) granting the right to nuclear facilities construction. The license will be valid for 5 years. The current license will expire in July. Thus, there will be no idle period due…
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The Delegation from Indonesia visited ROSATOM Enterprises
From May 23 to 26, 2023, representatives of Indonesia visited Russia to get acquainted with ROSATOM’s competencies in the construction of large- and small-scale nuclear power plants and to discuss the perspectives of the bilateral cooperation in the nuclear sphere. The delegation included Dr. Agus Puji Prasetyono, Co-Chair of the Nuclear Power Development Program Organization…
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Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, held the meeting with Zhang Kejian, the head of the China Atomic Energy Authority
On May 24, 2023 in Beijing, Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, held the meeting with Zhang Kejian, the head of the China Atomic Energy Authority, on the sidelines of the official visit of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin to China. The main current and long-term agenda of cooperation between Russia…
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Nuclear-powered icebreaker Sibir of Rosatomflot completed anti-jamming operations on the Yenisei
On May 23, the universal nuclear icebreaker Sibir of Atomflot FSUE completed flood control work on the Yenisei River. The crew of the nuclear-powered ship had a task to make additional ice channels and cuts in the riverbed to prevent possible ice jams. “For the first time, the universal nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 was…
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The Head of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev met with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi
The meeting was held in Beijing. The ROSATOM Director General visited China as a part of the delegation of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and IAEA Director General was on his working visit to China. Alexey Likhachev and Rafael Mariano Grossi continued their conversation, which has recently taken on regular character.…
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Unit 2 of Belarus NPP starts reaching the design capacity
On May 19 at 10:50, Roman Golovchenko, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus, and Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, started the program of reaching the design capacity for Unit 2 of Belarus NPP (its general designer and general contractor being the Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division). The stage of low power testing…
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The lower tier of the inner containment dome of the reactor building has been lifted at Unit 7 of Tianwan NPS
The lower tier of liner of the inner containment dome of the reactor building has been lifted at Unit 7 of Tianwan NPS being constructed in China with participation of Rosatom’s Engineering Division. The large-sized metal structure with diameter of 44 m and weight of 391 t has been installed in its design position on…
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ROSATOM participates in the G20 International Seminar in Mumbai
Mumbai, 16th May 2023– ROSATOM participated in the G20 International Seminar on ‘The Role of Small Modular Reactors in the Energy Transition’. The event, organized under the framework of G20 Presidency of India, took place on 16th May 2023 in Mumbai. Dr. Andrey Krasnov, Head of Department, ROSATOM, and Dr. Alexandre Volgin, Director of Project,…
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Unit 2 of the Belarusian NPP included the unified energy system of the Republic of Belarus
Unit 2 of Gen III+ with VVER-1200 (the general designer and general contractor is Rosatom Engineering Division) of the Belarusian NPP was synced with the grid for the first time and supplied the first kilowatt-hours of electricity to the unified energy system of the Republic of Belarus. The grid connection at the reactor power of…
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ROSATOM takes part in the Nuclear Trade and Technology Exchange international conference (Brazil)
Rio de Janeiro, 4 May. – ROSATOM takes part in the Nuclear Trade and Technology Exchange international conference (NT2E) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 3–5. Kirill Komarov, First Deputy Director General for Development and International Business, took part at the conference as the head of the ROSATOM delegation and spoke on “The…
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Head of ROSATOM Alexei Likhachev and Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan discussed cooperation in the field of atomic energy use
On May 2, a meeting was held in Yerevan between Alexei Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom State Corporation, and Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia. The main issues of comprehensive cooperation between Russia and Armenia were discussed with the participation of Rosatom State Corporation. The task of re-extension of operation life of…
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Main Construction Phase for Unit 3 of El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant Commences in Egypt
On the 3rd of May 2023, a technical ceremony for the pouring of the first concrete for Unit 3 of the El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant took place at the El-Dabaa construction site in Egypt, marking the commencement of the main construction phase for Unit 3 of the El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant Project. The first concrete…
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ROSATOM took part in the international MDEP conference
ROSATOM has taken part in the 5th international MDEP conference (The Multinational Design Evaluation Programme) that was held in Turkey. The event was organized by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. The conference was attended by over 100 representatives of regulatory authorities and large companies from 19 countries. Russia was represented by Rostechnadzor, Rosenergoatom JSC, Rusatom Energy…
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ROSATOM has finished test assembly of the first research reactor for Bolivia
April 28, 2023, Dimitrovgrad – RIAR JSC (an enterprise of ROSATOM’s Science Division) held a ceremony of completing the test assembly of the first research reactor for the Center for Nuclear Technology Research and Development (CNTRD) in Bolivia. The event has been attended by representatives of Rosatom and María Luisa Ramos Urzagaste, Ambassador of the Plurinational…
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First batch of nuclear fuel was delivered to Akkuyu NPP
April 27, 2023, Büyükeceli, Turkey. – A solemn ceremony dedicated to the delivery of the first batch of nuclear fuel for the first nuclear power plant in Turkey was held at the Akkuyu NPP construction site. This historic event marks the entry of the Republic of Turkey into the community of countries developing nuclear generation…
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ROSATOM obtained a license for the first land-based SMR in Russia
On April 21, Rosenergoatom, a Joint-Stock Company, obtained a license issued by the Federal Service for the Supervision of Environment, Technology and Nuclear Management (Rostekhnadzor) to construct the Yakutsk land-based SMR in the Ust-Yansky District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The design of land-based SMR is based on the latest Russian technology – a…