Month: January 2022
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Severstal ivests i revolutioary ew techology to produce low-carbo hydroge
February 1, 2022 PAO Severstal has announced an investment in Ekona Power Inc., a Canadian developer of low-carbon hydrogen production technology. According to Ekona Power Inc., in addition to Severstal Ventures, American technology company Baker Hughes (headquarters: Houston, Texas), Japanese trading and investing company Mitsui (headquarters: Tokyo, Japan), and American oil company ConocoPhillips (headquarters: Houston,…
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Russia’s Electrochemical Plant sees record revenue from isotopes
In 2021, the revenue from the sale of isotope products from Russia’s Electrochemical Plant (part of Rosatom’s Fuel Company TVEL) increased by 8% year-on-year, to more than RUB1.6 billion ($20m) for the first time. Foreign proceeds from the sale of isotope products on the world market amounted to about $18.5 million. This is not the…
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Over 93 per cent of employees vaccinated at Gazprom and core subsidiaries of gas business
January 27, 2022, 12:15 The Management Committee took note of the information about the results of the efforts undertaken in 2021 to vaccinate the employees of the Gazprom Group against COVID-19, as well as the status of health & disease control measures implemented to curb the spread of infection at Gazprom, its subsidiaries and entities. It was highlighted that Gazprom continues to pursue a set of mandatory measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Conditions…
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Severstal jois coalitio i support of the Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics Iitiative with the World Ecoomic Forum
January 27, 2022 PAO Severstal has become the first Russian steel company to join the World Economic Forum’s coalition to promote responsible corporate reporting on stakeholder capitalism. The Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics initiative, sponsored by the International Business Council (IBC) of the World Economic Forum, is part of wider efforts to develop a set of universal…
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100+ international companies and organisations partake in ROSATOM’s “Breakthrough Technologies for a Sustainable Future” week at EXPO-2020
Taking place as part of World Expo 2020 in Dubai (UAE), ROSATOM’s thematic weeklong event “Breakthrough Technologies for a Sustainable Future” came to a close on January 24. The event – unprecedented in terms of scale – saw ROSATOM representatives taking part in 18 sessions dedicated to the role of advanced technologies in achieving a…
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Feasibility study completed for Soyuz Vostok gas pipeline project
January 25, 2022, 14:05 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Sainbuyan Amarsaikhan, Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia, took place today via a video link. The parties signed a statement on the results of the consideration of the feasibility study for the Soyuz Vostok gas trunkline construction project. As per the feasibility study, the pipeline will stretch for 962.9 kilometers…
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ROSATOM and Other Russian IT Companies use Expo-2020 to Announce Plans for Teamwork on Global Market
Russian IT companies working together with ROSATOM and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (Russian Digital Ministry) are prepared to expand the international markets presence of their digital solutions and products. The potential for expanding the global markets presence of Russian IT solution was discussed by participants of…
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ROSATOM presents full Small Modular Reactors product line at EXPO 2020
20 January 2022, Dubai, UAE – ROSATOM, a global technological leader, has hosted Small Modular Reactors Day, the key event of its ‘Breakthrough Technologies for a Sustainable Future’ programme at EXPO 2020, which is currently taking place in Dubai. The event was held with the participation of ROSATOM Director General Alexey Likhachev, World Nuclear Association…
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Severstal ad Crédit Agricole CIB sig Climate Memoradum, “Together towards a low-carbo future”
January 21, 2022 Severstal announces that Crédit Agricole CIB has joined the steel company’s Climate Memorandum, “Together for a low-carbon Future”. The Memorandum aims to support global efforts to prevent further climate change. The memorandum was signed by Crédit Agricole CIB on 21st January 2022 in Moscow during the Climate Memorandum’s first Steering Committee meeting.…
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Russia and the Philippines Plan to Perform Pre-Feasibility Study on SMRs in the Philippines
20 January 2022 – As part of the Small Modular Reactors (SMR) Day at the World Expo 2020 exhibition in Dubai, ROSATOM and the Department of Energy (DOE) of the Republic of the Philippines presented a joint action plan to elaborate nuclear power plants (NPP) using the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology through a Pre-Feasibility…
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ROSATOM and Seligdar sign Energy Supply Agreement for Kyuchus gold deposit
At Expo 2020 Dubai, which hosted the Russian Day of Small Modular Reactor Nuclear Power Plants on January 20, 2022, Rusatom Overseas JSC (a company of ROSATOM) and PJSC Seligdar signed an Agreement on the Supply and Consumption of Energy Generated by a Small Modular Reactor Nuclear Power Plant (SMR NPP) to develop the Kyuchus…
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ROSATOM and Kyrgyzstan Agree to Cooperate on SMR NPP Construction
On the sidelines of Expo 2020 in Dubai, where on 20 January 2022 Russian nuclear SMR technology was presented, ROSATOM and the Ministry of Energy and Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on the construction of small modular reactor nuclear power plants. Under the memorandum signed by Alexey Likhachev, Director General…
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ROSATOM and Armenia Sign Cooperation Agreement to Build New Nuclear Units
On the sidelines of Expo 2020 in Dubai, which hosted the Russian Day of SMR NPPs (Small Modular Reactor Nuclear Power Plants) on 20 January 2022, ROSATOM and the management of the Armenian nuclear power plant signed a Memorandum of Understanding to look into possible cooperation to construct new nuclear power units of Russian design…
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Core catcher casing has been installed at Tianwan NPP Unit 7
The installation of the core melt localization device, or the “core catcher”, has started at Tianwan NPP Unit 7. The first element of the device – the core catcher casing – has been installed in the design position. The core catcher casing is a tank weighing over 156 tons, with the total weight of the…
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Severstal’s Yakovlevsky GOK lauches loadig ad storage complex, worth 1.7 billio rubles
January 18, 2022 PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading steel producers, announces that Yakovlevsky Mining and Processing plant (part of PAO Severstal) has launched a new loading and storage complex in test mode. This is the final stage of the project, the plant’s largest investment project of the past year. The Company invested approximately…
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Gas production and supplies: results for first half of January
January 17, 2022, 14:20 According to preliminary data, Gazprom produced 23.1 billion cubic meters of gas between January 1 and 15, 2022, which is 2.1 per cent (or 0.5 billion cubic meters) more than in the same period of last year. Gazprom ramped up its domestic supplies from the gas transmission system by 3.7 per cent (or by 0.6 billion cubic meters) over said period of 2022. The Company’s…
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Core catcher casing has been installed at Xudabao NPP Unit 3
The core catcher casing with weight of 156 t and height of 6.1 m has been installed in its design position at Unit 3 of Xudabao NPP being constructed in China under Russian design VVER-1200. The core catcher is one of passive safety systems, which ensure isolation of the reactor building foundation slab from core…
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Permanent exhibition on Peter I era opens at Hermitage Museum with support from Gazprom
January 14, 2022, 19:40 Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director General of the State Hermitage Museum, opened today in St. Petersburg the Peter the Great Gallery, the first part of the permanent exhibition entitled “Russian Culture in the First Half of the 18th Century.” The exhibition is timed to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the…
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Аt EXPO 2020 ROSATOM to host a week of nuclear-themed events
ROSATOM, a global technological leader, will host ‘Breakthrough Technologies for a Sustainable Future’ week at EXPO 2020 in Dubai, UAE. The week-long programme, taking place on 17-24 January 2022, will highlight a wide range of technologies and their applications – including the latest nuclear innovations – aimed at improving quality of life and helping to…
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License documentation for El Dabaa NPP units 3 and 4 has been handed over to the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority
On December 30, 2021, ahead of schedule, Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA) handed over the package of documents to the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) which are required for receipt of license for construction of El Dabaa NPP power units 3 and 4 (general designer and general contractor is ROSATOM Engineering Division).…
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Freight volume via NSR was about 35 mln tons in 2021
“Final results have been summed up as regards freight volume via the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2021. It was 34.85 mln tons,” Maksim Kulinko, Deputy Director of ROSATOM’s NSR Directorate, said. This is nearly 2 mln tons more than in 2020, when 32.97 mln tons were transported. The data has been confirmed by FSBE…
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Novawind JSC began wind power deliveries to DeloPorts
On January 1, 2022, Atomenergopromsbyt JSC (part of ROSATOM’s wind power division NovaWind) began supplying wind-generated electricity to DeloPorts (a stevedore asset of Delo Group). The company switched its KSK and NUTEP terminals to electricity completely generated at wind farms. The respective agreement was signed in April 2021 between the parent company of the Group,…
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Alexey Miller: 2021 was Gazprom’s record-breaking year
January 2, 2022 We have received the operational data on the Company’s performance in the year 2021. For Gazprom, it was a record-breaking year. In 2021, we produced 514.8 billion cubic meters of gas. This is the best result in the last 13 years. It topped the 2020 result by 62.2 billion cubic meters. The growth in Gazprom’s production covered the lion’s share of global gas consumption growth in 2021. As usual,…
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Rosenergoatom: Russian NPPs entered 2022 with a new record exceeding 222.436 billion kWh
In 2021, Rosenergoatom (part of the Electric Power Division of Rosatom) once again confirmed its status as the largest power generating company in the country: its branches – nuclear power plants generated over 222.436 billion kWh. This volume of electricity generated by the NPP allowed saving more than 111 million tons of CO2-equivalent emissions (if…