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 publicized its annual report for 2010. According to the document the electricity production by the nuclear power plants in 2010 comprised 170.1 billion KWh, the proceeding of selling goods, products, operations and services reached 498 billion rubles (growth by 8.7 % against 2009), the press-service of Rosatom reports. The export order […]

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 […]

The Russian offer on financing the project of the Bulgarian nuclear power plant Belene remains valid, the power plant itself can be built very fast, the head of Rosatom Sergei Kirienko declared at the Forum of Nuclear Industry Suppliers “ATOMEX-Europe”. ‘The nuclear power plant can be built really quickly because everything is in fact ready […]

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 […]

The Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation has been signed by the leader of the global industry the Rolls-Royce group and the State Atomic Energy Corporation of the Russian Federation Rosatom, the media-service of the State Corporation reports. The signing of such a memo is a natural continuation of the agreements reached by the prime-minister of […]

On August 27 the first power generating unit of the Kalininskaya nuclear power plant broke off its operation. Its further reliability and stability in operation are the objectives of the medium scale scheduled repairs. The contracting organization and the services of the nuclear power plant will execute statutory repair works of the following type: disassembly […]