The select team of ROSATOM became the winner in the unofficial team scoring at the WorldSkills Hi-Tech 2018. The National Championship of cross-industry blue collar jobs in hi-tech sectors was held in Yekaterinburg on October 24-28. ROSATOM team was represented in 20 out of 32 championship competences. Participants from ten corporate divisions collected 16 gold,…
DetailsOver 5,000 students from over 50 schools in India attended the events of the six-day ROSATOM Festival of Science and Culture. The event, organized by the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM in association with ASE (Rosatom Engineering Division), Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, and Nehru Science Center in Mumbai,…
DetailsPower start-up of Tianwan NPP (TNPP) power unit No.4 being constructed in China under the Russian NPP design with VVER-1000 reactors took place on October 27 2018 at 01:53 msk. The fourth power unit produced the first kilowatts of output to the national grid system. In compliance with the permit obtained from the Chinese regulatory…
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Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin made the key report during the XI Eurasian Economic Forum in Verona (Italy). The main topic of the forum is “Economy of trust and diplomacy of business from the Atlantic to the Pacific”. The head of Rosneft noted the high importance of the issues discussed at the forum and…
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The wife of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov and Russia’s only female billionaire, Yelena Baturina, has topped an annual list of the country’s 25 richest women for the sixth year in a row, according to the latest rating published by the Russian edition of Forbes on Thursday. The magazine estimated Baturina’s fortune at $1.2 billion…
DetailsJSC Isotope participated in the annual congress of European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2018) held on October 13-17 in Dusseldorf (Germany). At the EANM exhibition, JSC Isotope and Rusatom Healthcare presented ROSATOM’s capabilities in supplies of medical products produced by such enterprises as Karpov IPC, SSC RIAR, IPPE, IRM, ECP, and others. At the…
DetailsOn October 23 in Belgrade Deputy Director General of ROSATOM Nikolai Spasskiy had a meeting with President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić. The meeting was also attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Serbia Aleksandr Chepurin and Minister without Portfolio in charge of Innovation and Technological…
DetailsOctober 24, 2018 The Board of Directors of PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading steel and steel-related mining companies, has approved the Company’s long-term occupational and industrial safety and environmental protection objectives. Occupational and industrial safety Severstal is dedicated to consistently improving safety for all of its employees. The Company has set an objective…
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With the support of Rosneft, a concert by the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of conductor Yuri Temirkanov was held in Berlin. The performance took place as part of the programme of the Grand European tour of the orchestra. During the tour, Yuri Temirkanov and the orchestra performed 11 concerts in the best…
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A 1.5 year-old polar bear cub was rescued on Dikson Island with help of Rosneft Oil Company and Wildlife Conservation and Research Society. The rescue operation for the little warden of Arctic lasted almost a week. Under supervision of an experienced veterinarian and zoologist, the bear in a special cage was delivered to Krasnoyarsk nature…
DetailsOn October 19, 2018 a solemn ceremony was held in Uzbekistan to celebrate the launch of the first NPP construction project in Uzbekistan. The event marked the beginning of investigation studies to select the construction site for the future NPP. The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, who was…
DetailsAEM Technologies company (belongs to the Engineering Division of ROSATOM – Atomenergomash JSC) shipped a set of key equipment for the third unit of the Kudankulam NPP in India. Four steam generators assembled, which are the main element of the reactor unit and provide the transformation of nuclear energy produced by the reactor into power…
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According to the results of the audit, Rosneft has received certificates of the Company’s Integrated Management System compliance with two international standards – ISO 14001:2015, which establishes the requirements to environmental management systems, and with Standard BS OHSAS 18001:2007, which sets the requirements to H&S management systems functioning. In September-October 2018, the auditors of DQS…
DetailsRepresentatives of more than 20 foreign mass media companies from Bangladesh, Hungary, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus have visited Belarusian NPP. The journalists were given a chance to familiarize themselves with the progress of construction of the first Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant. In particular, the representatives of mass media companies visited the site designed…
DetailsOpen doors day took place at the Akkuyu NPP site (Turkey) On October 6 in Büyükeceli (Province of Mersin) AKKUYU NUCLEAR Project Company organized the first Open doors day at the construction site of Akkuyu NPP (Turkey). Residents of the nearest localities of Gülnar district, Mersin province, were guests of the event. Through a guided…
DetailsOctober 5, New Delhi – On the sidelines of the 19th India-Russia Annual Bilateral Summit in New Delhi today the two countries signed a document for cooperation in implementation of new nuclear power projects The Action Plan for Prioritization and Implementation of Cooperation Areas in the Nuclear Field identified jointly by Russia and India was…
DetailsThe Baltijskiy Zavod specialists completed October 2, 2018 loading nuclear fuel into the second of two reactors – the portside reactor – of the world-only floating nuclear power plant ‘Akademik Lomonosov’, which is based on the site of FSUE Atomflot (a ROSATOM’s subsidiary) in Murmansk. Thus, the second stage of preparing the FNPP to the…
DetailsOn the 3rd of October 2018 in Moscow at the 2nd International Forum “Russian Energy Week” ROSATOM held the round-table session “Nuclear Power – the Basis for Global Partnership and Current Development”. The event was attended by Deputy Director General of the IAEA Mikhail Chudakov, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó,…
DetailsOn 28 September, 2018 on Nuclear Industry Employee Day at Rostov NPP (a branch of Rosenergoatom JSC, a part of Electric Power Division of ROSATOM) one of this year’s key events for Russian nuclear power industry happened – the power unit No 4 with VVER-1000 reactor was put into commercial operation three months earlier the…
DetailsOn 30 September 2018, 14:27 (Beijing time) the reactor plant of Tianwan NPP unit No 4 that is under construction in China with the technical assistance of ROSATOM Engineering Division, has been brought to minimum controllable level of power. This is the final stage of the first criticality procedures. The first criticality procedures of power…
DetailsAAEM LLC (a joint venture of Atomenergomash JSC and General Electric) has entered into the contract with DEZ JSC (acting on behalf of Atomstroyexport JSC, a general contractor for the El Dabaa project) to supply turbine hall equipment for Units 1 to 4 of the El Dabaa nuclear power station in Egypt. Under the contract…
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Kremlin.ru The Trump administration is helping Vladimir Putin achieve a goal that’s eluded him for almost two decades — getting Russia’s billionaires to start repatriating some of their assets. Relatively muted sanctions imposed during the Obama era over the conflict in Ukraine have only widened in scope and severity since Trump took office last year.…
DetailsTVEL JSC and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have signed an Agreement on R&D in the framework of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Study. The document is an addendum to the existing framework agreement on industrial partnership between the parties, which is aimed at cooperation in the field of superconducting materials (SCM). According…
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