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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
April 17, 2023, Büyükeceli, Mersin Province, Türkiye. – The fourth tier of the inner containment, which relates to basic components of the nuclear power plant’s safety system, was installed in the reactor building of the second power unit of Akkuyu NPP. The inner containment consists of a steel lining and is made of a special…
ROSATOM’s wind power division NovaWind has started to supply wind-generated power to the power utility company Petroelectrosbyt (PES), enabling it to provide customers with ‘green’ electricity generated at wind power plants. Earlier, PES signed a contract with VetroSGC-2 (part of NovaWind) for the supply of 1.8 million kWh of electricity from the Berestovskaya Wind Farm.…
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…
At the plenary session “Main Challenges and New Threats to Security in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation”, held as part of the Safe Arctic 2023 exercises in Salekhard, on April 7, Vladimir Panov, ROSATOM Special Representative for the Arctic Development, noted that the Plan for the Northern Sea Route development until 2035 envisages…
The Department for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus (Gosatomnadzor of the Republic of Belarus) has issued a permit for opening of the Power Start-up stage at Unit 2 of Belarus NPP (the general designer and general contractor is Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division). The obtained…
On 5 April, Director General of ROSATOM Mr. Alexey Likhachev had a meeting with IAEA Director General Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi in Kaliningrad. From the Russian side, the meeting was attended by head of Rostechnadzor Mr. Alexander Trembitskiy; Chief of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Mr.…
From March 28 to 30, 2023, experts from the Moscow Center of the World Association of Organizations Operating Nuclear Power Plants (WANO-MC) held an on-site training seminar on the methodology for conducting peer reviews at the Kalinin NPP (branch of Rosenergoatom). The training course was attended by 25 heads of the chief engineer service and…
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 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…
On March 29, 2023, a meeting of Board of Directors of Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) was held, at which the regulatory authority issued a license for construction of El-Dabaa NPP Unit 3 (general designer and general contractor – ROSATOM Engineering Division). From 11 to 17 March 2023, a commission of Egyptian Nuclear…
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…
March 29, 2023, Moscow – Russia and Nicaragua have signed the Intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of non-energy applications of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Within the framework of the agreement, the Parties will work together in a wide range of areas, particularly in medicine and agriculture. The document was signed during the…
On March 25, the reactor of Power Unit 2 of Belarus NPP (general designer and general contractor is Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division) was brought to minimum controllable power level. At 19:42 (Moscow time), the neutron flux was registered for the first time, and controlled self-sustained nuclear reactor began. Achievement of the minimum controllable power…
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…
On March 21, 2023, the first heavy and oversized equipment for the El-Dabaa NPP, the core catcher for Unit 1, arrived to the El-Dabaa NPP construction site in Egypt (the general designer and general contractor is ROSATOM Engineering Division). In the beginning of March 2023, the ship carrying three main components of the core catcher…
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…
On March 17, a delegation of the RF State Duma deputies headed by Pavel Zavalny, Chairman of the Energy Committee, has visited during a working trip the largest Union State energy project, i .e. the Belarus NPP (its general designer and general contractor being the Engineering Division of Rosatom State Corporation). The Russian members of…
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…
One more batch of equipment for Rooppur NPP that is under construction in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (general designer and general contractor is Rosatom’s Engineering Division) has been delivered from Russia to the sea port of Mongla. About 1 200 tons of industrial equipment has been transported on the MV Aparajitа vessel. The vessel…
Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP), an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom, has been awarded as the winner of the tender by the Brazilian Eletronuclear company for supplies of more than 100 kg of lithium-7 hydroxide. This product will be used in the reactor cooling system of both operating power units of the Admiral…