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 […]

The US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Konstyantyn Gryschenko effected the deal on the recovery of Ukrainian weapon-grade plutonium deposits. Clinton classified this deal as mutually beneficial pointing out that both the people of Ukraine and global safety will benefit from that, the news agencies […]

Environmentalists, big NGOs as well as opposition political forces in Kaliningrad created a coalition actively standing for the organization of a referendum on the issue of another nuclear power plant construction in the region. The initiators of the referendum are appealing to the authorities with the issues which the common citizens of the region concerned […]

According to the public information center of Balakovo nuclear power plant, after the completion of the preventive maintenance overhaul by virtue of the permission obtained from Rosenergoatom Concern the first reactor unit of the Balakovo nuclear power plant was connected to the energy system and started load increase on July 26 at 11:47 (Moscow time). […]

On July 17there was a fall of the metal framework which was being erected around one of the would-be power units of the nuclear power plant Leningradskaya in the vicinity of St. Petersburg in Sosnovy Bor. As a result of the accident no one was hurt but this incident showed that there are plenty of […]

The first stage of the would-be Belorussian nuclear power plant production facilities has been put in operation. This was announced by the chief engineer of the state enterprise Directorate for Nuclear Power Plant Construction Anatoliy Bondar’. “This is the so-called lunching pad which also includes the management and residential building for the first builders and […]

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 […]

The nuclear power plant in Bushehr can be set into operation in a little more than a month. This was stated by the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov, according to Interfax. ‘The project has been completed, everything’s up and running, now it is the matter of process engineers,’ he said […]