On January 17 at 10:52 Moscow time the capacity of the generating set at the Leningradskaya power plant was reduced by 500 MW due to a preliminary request. In compliance with the permission obtained in advance the turbogenerator #3 was disconnected from the network. The officially disclosed reason for that is the fault in the […]

The new investigation of the events which caused the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima-1 is to begin in January 2012. The investigation will be resumed by the nuclear scientists who were engaged in the analysis of this disaster before. According to the preliminary investigation process strategy the nuclear experts are to be […]

The planned financing of the Nizhnegorodskaya NPP construction for 2012 is 1 billion rubles. Such news was announced by the director of JSC Nizhny Novgorod Engineering Company «Atomenergoproekt», interim president of CJSC Atomstroyexport Valeriy Limarenko at the press-conference in Nizhniy Novgorod on December 22. According to him, starting from 2012 NNECAEP is to start full […]

On December 22 2011 at 01:04 Moscow time Kalininskaya power plant (Tverskaya region) fulfilled the Federal Tariff Service annual plan of power generation to the extent of 22.665 billion KWh. A day earlier on December 21 at 06:00 Moscow time the Federal Tariff Service annual plan of power supply was at the extent of 21.471 […]

On November 26 2011 the fourth generating unit of the Kurskaya NPP was connected to the power grid after the outage period, the public information center of the Kurskaya nuclear power plant reports. The generating unit was commissioned in compliance with the requirements of the process regulations for safe operation. It is worth reminding that […]

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 ” […]

In October 2011 the power generating units of the Novovoronezhskaya nuclear power plant generated 948,067 million kWh of electrical energy, 880 818 million KWh of electrical energy was released into the electric power system. Altogether since the beginning of 2011 the electricity production comprised 5721, 584 million KWh. 5174,743 million KWh of electrical energy was […]