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02.12.2024
NRTC. Rosatom and the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Ethiopia signed a contract to conduct a feasibility study for a nuclear research and technology center (NRTC) that might be built in the country. Rosatom will analyze Ethiopia’s non-energy economic sectors to assess their need for the technology solutions that can be adopted at the NRTC. The parties will also make a list of potential users who will later form a market for the NRTC-based commercial products and services. Rosatom will identify possible sites for the center and conduct preliminary engineering surveys as part of site selection activities. The NRTC is Rosatom’s turnkey proposal integrating a research reactor, laboratories and, optionally, a multi-purpose irradiation facility and a nuclear medicine center. Also included in the proposal are the services for the development of nuclear infrastructure in the partner country, personnel training, fuel deliveries, maintenance and upgrade, spent fuel and radioactive waste management.
Wind farm. Rosatom has started construction of another wind farm, Novolakskaya, in Dagestan, Russia. The wind farm will have 120 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.5 MW each. The first 61 wind turbines with the total capacity of 152.5 MW will be commissioned in 2025. Another 59 wind turbines with the total capacity of 147.5 MW will be put in operation in 2026. The total installed capacity of Novolakskaya will be 300 MW, with the planned output to be 879 million kWh on the annual average. Rosatom is an end-to-end technology vendor for the wind power industry, with its services ranging from wind power engineering to turbine maintenance. Atommash (Rosatom’s production facility) manufactures hubs, nacelles, generators and cooling systems for wind turbines. To date, Rosatom has commissioned nine wind farms in southern Russia with the total installed capacity of 1,035 MW. The total capacity of Rosatom’s wind farms is planned to reach 1.7 GW by 2027.
NSR. Russia hosted the first meeting of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) Cooperation Sub-Commission of the Russia-China Commission for the Preparation of Regular Meetings between the Heads of Government. “Although we are holding the first meeting of the Sub-Commission, we have already put on paper a number of navigation safety agreements between our countries. We also deal with other important issues in a fully collaborative manner,” said Alexey Likhachev, Head of Rosatom. The primary scope of the Sub-Commission’s activities comprises navigation safety, growth of cargo traffic on the NSR, development of logistics routes, and exchange of information on ice conditions. This year, Chinese shipping companies have almost doubled the number of voyages on the NSR. In June, Rosatom and Chinese companies signed a letter of intent to set up a shipbuilding joint venture and establish a year-round container line linking Russian and Chinese ports through the Northern Sea Route. The NSR is the shortest shipping lane between the western part of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region.
