From August 31 to September 2012 the power plant is receiving a peer review from the World Association on Nuclear Organizations (WANO). There are 21 participants of the inspection from the USA, Germany, Ukraine, India, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Armenia and Russia. They are top-ranked globally recognized specialists in the nuclear power industry. The total work experience […]

Rosatom embarked on studying the possibility of participation in the construction program of several nuclear power plants in the Republic of South Africa (RSA). The cost of the project is estimated at about 130 million American dollars. Alexey Kalinin, Head of International Business Development of the company, pointed out that the Plan of Resources Development […]

It has not been once that Russia appealed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania raising the issues of safety and overall operation of the second Lithuanian nuclear power plant, the program director of the state corporation Rosatom Sergei Boyarkin said in the course of the round table discussion “The prospects of the nuclear […]

Russia will grant Vietnam a credit of 8 billion American dollars for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the country, the first vice prime-minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov says. Shuvalov pointed out that the most modern equipment is to be delivered for the construction of of the nuclear power plant […]

The nuclear power plants of Ukraine increased the electricity production for the 10 months of 2011 compared to the same period of 2010 by 0.9% — to 73.4 billion KWh, this is reported by the State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generating Company “Energoatom” (Kiev). Among other instances there is Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant which produced […]

The State Corporation Rosatom is creating a systems integrator – ZAO Rusatom Service which will deal with the maintenance service of foreign nuclear power plants. As the press-release of the State Corporation says the company was registered at the end of October 2011. Its founders are OAO Rosenergoatom (51%), OAO Atomenergomash (16%), ОАО “Gidropress ” […]

The State Corporation Rosatom intends to spend about 18 billion rubles on the two-year program of improving safety at the operating nuclear power plants, the first Deputy Director General of Rosatom Alexander Lokshin said on Thursday. “The funds will be spent on purchasing additional equipment which can be used at the operating nuclear power plants […]

October 28 saw the turbine generators #8 and # 7 of the fourth power generating unit at the Leningradskaya nuclear power plant connected to the grid at 11.51 and 20.05 respectively after replacing the transformer at one of the phases. On October 29 at 111.20 the unit load was restored to nominal. The power generating […]

In September the power generating units of Balakovskaya nuclear power plant produced 2.987 billion kWh of electrical energy. The planned monthly objective has been fulfilled 102.7 %. The capacity factor comprised 03.7%. At present the four generating units of the Balakovskaya nuclear power plant are in operation. There are no complaints on the safety operation […]

Russia is concerned with the forthcoming negotiations start with Iran on nuclear program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last Friday, RIA Novosti informs. “We are concerned with the forthcoming start of the full-fledged negotiations with Iran and confirmed the support of the offers, which this group (3+3) passed to our Iranian partners”, Russian Foreign […]