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…
DetailsSingapore, 19 September, 2018 – ROSATOM, through its subsidiary, Rusatom Healthcare, and Australian Securities Exchange-listed Asian American Medical Group (“AAMG”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) today to develop a Nuclear Medical Centre in Johor Bahru in Malaysia, bordering Singapore. The MoU was signed at the 9th Session of the High-Level Russia-Singapore Inter-Governmental Commission in…
DetailsOn September 17, 2018 the 62nd General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was opened in Vienna. The Conference is held under the aegis of commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and protection of the environment. The event traditionally brings together high-ranking delegates from more than 160 IAEA Member States to discuss…
DetailsOn September 17, on the sidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference in Vienna, Bangladesh and Russia signed a Protocol to amend the Agreement between the Government of Russia and the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh on partnership in the construction of a nuclear power plant on the territory of…
DetailsDuring the 62nd IAEA General Conference that took place on September 17-21, 2018 in Vienna (Austria), TENEX and IAEA concluded a contract on low enriched uranium (LEU) transit necessary for successful implementation of the IAEA LEU Bank international initiative. The document was signed by Oleg Kozin, Deputy Director General for Logistics at TENEX, and Mark…
DetailsJSC Science and Innovations (scientific division of ROSATOM) and the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) signed the Implementing Arrangement Concerning Information Exchange on Reactor Physics Experiments for Minor Actinoid Transmutation for Radioactive Waste Processing and Management on September 13, 2018 in Vladivostok at the Eastern Economic Forum. The Arrangement was signed within the framework of…
DetailsRussia and Uzbekistan have signed a cooperation agreement to build a nuclear power plant in the republic. The signing ceremony was held after the negotiations of the prime ministers of Russia and Uzbekistan. The documents were signed by Head of the Cabinet of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Head of the Government of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov.…
DetailsTVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM organized the IAEA Technical Meeting on light water reactor fuel enrichment beyond the 5% limit. The international seminar brought together over 40 experts from 12 countries and IAEA. The three-day discussions were attended by nuclear industry experts, including representatives of national regulatory bodies, nuclear power generation companies, nuclear fuel producers…
DetailsOn September 26-27, 2018 Murmansk will host the 11th Regional Public Dialogue Forum “Cooperation for the Arctic Sustainable Development” which is carried out under the auspices of the Public Council of ROSATOM with participation of the V. I. Vernadsky Non-governmental Environmental Foundation, the Russian Green Cross and a number of other public environmental organizations. The…
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