ROSATOM, Ministry of Electric Power of Myanmar, Primus Advanced Technologies Ltd. Signed Memorandum of Understanding on Feasibility Study of 172 MW Wind Farms Construction

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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…

ROSATOM and Zeya & Associates Co. have agreed to develop non-energy nuclear technologies in Myanmar

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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…

ROSATOM, Ministry of Electric Power of Myanmar, Zeya & Associates Signed Memorandum of Understanding on Feasibility Study of 200 MW Wind Farm Construction

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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…

ROSATOM presented its healthcare products at Africa Health ExCon 2023 in Cairo

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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…

Rosatom Engineering Division signs an agreement on strategic partnership with Rostelecom at the SPIEF

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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…

ROSATOM’s Engineering Division presented its experience in digitalization of El-Dabaa NPP project at the International Project Management Forum

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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…

ROSATOM takes part in the Meeting of the Committee on Non-Power Applications of Nuclear Technologies under the IRC MBIR Advisory Board

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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…

Rostekhnadzor has issued a license for nuclear facilities construction to Atomenergoproekt JSC

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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…

Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, held the meeting with Zhang Kejian, the head of the China Atomic Energy Authority

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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…

Head of ROSATOM Alexei Likhachev and Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan discussed cooperation in the field of atomic energy use

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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…

ROSATOM took part in the international MDEP conference

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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…

ROSATOM has finished test assembly of the first research reactor for Bolivia

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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…

ROSATOM and FEDC agree to cooperate in the construction of Russia’s first onshore small nuclear power plant

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ROSATOM and the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (FEDC) have signed a cooperation agreement to build Russia’s first onshore small nuclear power plant (SNPP) in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The document was signed at the Mining Industry: Investment Projects and Support Measures Forum held in Moscow within the framework of the Russian Business…

Head of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev met with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó

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A meeting was held between Alexey Likhachev, Director General of State Atomiс Energy Corporation ROSATOM, and Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary. The parties discussed further steps in the implementation of the Paks-2 NPP construction project, as well as other aspects of multifaceted cooperation in the nuclear sector. At present, general…

Russian NPPs exceeded the state task of the FAS Russia by more than 4.4% in the first quarter of 2023

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Nuclear power plants in Russia (branches of Rosenergoatom, ROSATOM’s Electric Power Division) generated about 53.5 billion kilowatt-hours in three months of 2023, or 104.42% of the balance target* of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia. Therefore, since the beginning of the year, about 2.3 billion kWh have been generated in excess of the FAS…

In the first quarter of 2023 ROSATOM wind farms generated 650 thousand MWh of electricity

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In the first quarter of 2023 wind farms of NovaWind (ROSATOM’s wind power division) generated 650 thousand MWh of electricity, having demonstrated a 1.2-fold increase year-on-year. In Q1 2022, the wind farms produced 550 thousand MWh (excluding power output from the Berestovskaya Wind Farm). The 2023 figure includes electric power generated by seven wind farms…

NovaWind and Primus Advanced Technologies Ltd. (Myanmar) signed an agreement for cooperation on wind energy projects

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NovaWind (ROSATOM’s wind power division) and Primus Advanced Technologies Ltd. signed an agreement on fixing the top-level “roadmap” for cooperation on wind farm construction projects. The document was signed by NovaWind CEO Grigoriy Nazarov and Primus Advanced Technologies CEO Kyaw Hla Win.  The agreement envisions a partnership to construct a 172 MW wind farm. “We…

NRNU MEPhI announced enrollment of citizens of the Republic of Türkiye to study in the master’s program in Nuclear Physics and Technology

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March 21, 2023, Moscow, Russia. – National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (NRNU MEPhI) announced enrollment of citizens of the Republic of Türkiye to study in the master’s program in Nuclear Physics and Technology. It is planned to enroll 25 students within the program of training qualified engineers for Akkuyu NPP, which is under construction in…

ROSATOM and the Atomic Energy Agency of China signed the long-term cooperation program in the area of fast reactors and nuclear fuel cycle closure

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The Comprehensive Long-Term Cooperation Program in the area of fast reactors and nuclear fuel cycle closure was signed on March, 21, on the sidelines of the state visit of Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, to Russia. The document was signed by Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, and Zhang Kejian, the…

ROSATOM and Algerian Atomic Energy Commission discussed nuclear energy solutions in a jointly organized workshop in Algeria

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March 13, 2023 – Algeria (Algeria) – ROSATOM and the Algerian Atomic Energy Commission (COMENA) jointly organized a workshop on nuclear energy solutions for key stakeholders and companies in the Algerian energy market. This is the first event organized by the two parties taking place at the COMENA headquarters. Abdelhamid Mellah, COMENA commissioner, and Boris…

Radiopharmaceuticals Production Complex Built by Rosatom Starts Medical Supplies to Bolivian clinics

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March 9, 2023, El Alto, Bolivia – A unique for Latin America complex for radiopharmaceuticals production buit by Rosatom by order of the Bolivian Nuclear Energy Agency (ABEN), has started supplies of radiopharmaceuticals to the network of the Bolivian nuclear medicine centers. The ceremony of the beginning of supplies of the radiopharmaceutical fluodeoxyglucose took place…

The works on the outside containment concreting are completed ahead of schedule at Rooppur NPP Unit 1

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At the Rooppur NPP construction site in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (the general designer and general contractor being the Rosatom Engineering Division), the outside containment concreting has been completed 45 days ahead of schedule. The total process took 110 days instead of 155. According to the RPS project “Optimization of 10UJA outer containment structures…

ROSATOM delegation took part in the 12th International Symposium on Targeted Alpha Therapy in the RSA

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ROSATOM delegation took part in the 12th International Symposium on Targeted Alpha Therapy in the Republic of South Africa, ended on March 2, 2023 in Cape Town (South Africa). The symposium brought together more than 300 nuclear medicine professionals from medical and scientific organizations, educational institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and regulatory authorities from around the world.…

Representatives of National Research University Moscow Energy Institute and AKKUYU NUCLEAR JSC discuss the training program for Akkuyu NPP

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March 2, 2023, Moscow, Russia. – A working meeting on training specialists for Akkuyu NPP took place at the National Research University Moscow Energy Institute. The Target Training Program for Akkuyu NPP Personnel among citizens of the Republic of Turkey is being implemented on the basis of the Intergovernmental Agreement between the Government of the…

ROSATOM signed the contracts for supply of medical isotopes to Armenia and Kazakhstan

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Isotope JSC (included into Rusatom Healthcare JSC Division) signed new contracts for supply of technetium-99m generators GT-5K to the Republic of Armenia and germanium-68/ gallium-68 generators to the Republic of Kazakhstan. The first lot of technetium-99m generators GT-5K with banks was delivered to Isotope Production Center CJSC in Yerevan at the end of February. This…

MBIR became a participant of the BRICS GRAIN International Platform

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The Multipurpose Fast Neutron Research Reactor (MBIR), being constructed by State Corporation Rosatom within the framework of the comprehensive program “Development of Technology, Technologies and Scientific Research in the Field of Atomic Energy Use in the Russian Federation”, became a participant in the GRAIN International Platform (Global Research Advanced Infrastructure Network). BRICS GRAIN platform was…

The training course on IAEA Safeguards and Nuclear Security has been completed at the Technical Academy

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The training course “Global Nuclear Safety and Security: IAEA Safeguards and Nuclear Security” has been completed at the Rosatom Technical Academy. It was organized by the Institute of Global Nuclear Safety and Security of the Rosatom Technical Academy for experts working at nuclear industry enterprises and dealing with issues of international cooperation with the Agency…

In 2023, ROSATOM plans to implement nearly a third of the total amount of Russia’s dredging operations at 6 sites in the NSR water area

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The total volume of dredging and hydraulic engineering operations in the waters of the Northern Sea Route in 2023 is to amount to 13.5 million cubic meters, said Maxim Kulinko, Deputy Head of the NSR Directorate of ROSATOM at the 6th Hydraulic Engineering and Dredging Congress. This amounts to 36.1% of all dredging operations planned…

Consultations held between the Russian delegation and the IAEA delegation

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On February 9 this year, Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev had a regular meeting with Director General of IAEA Rafael Grossi in Moscow. From the Russian side, the meeting was also attended by Alexander  Trembitsky, Head of Rostekhnadzor (Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia), Igor Kirillov, Chief of Radiation, Chemical, and…