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01.08.2022
Wind Power. Rosatom and Vietnamese An Xuan Energy signed an agreement on cooperation in wind energy envisioning a wind farm with a capacity of 128 MW in the north-western Vietnamese province of Son La. “We have gained extensive experience as a developer of wind energy projects in Russia and are ready to apply our competencies abroad. Rosatom is already implementing a number of projects in Vietnam in energy and science, and now these areas of cooperation are expanding,” said Grigory Nazarov, Director General of NovaWind (Rosatom’s wind energy division). “This project will bring social and economic benefits to Vietnam and its energy system as well as the population of the province. In cooperation with NovaWind, we intend to ensure the commercial operation of the facility as planned,” said Nguyen Quang Luan, head of An Xuan Energy.
New Equipment. Rosatom produced two key pieces of equipment for Rosatom’s nuclear projects abroad. The first is the lower half-shell of the reactor for the Tianwan NPP Unit 7 in China. It consists of two shells and a bottom with the total weight of the structure surpassing 160 tons. The second piece is the bottom of the reactor vessel for the Akkuyu NPP Unit 4 under construction in Turkey. The operation took place in two stages: first, a forged steel billet in the form of a pipe was bent into a sheet of metal. Then, the round billet was heated at a temperature of more than 1000 degrees, moved to a tooling and shaped into the bottom of the reactor.
Logistics. TransContainer (part of the Delo Group, 30% owned by Rosatom) has launched a new multimodal service between Russia and Turkey. From now on, export cargo arriving by rail in Russian Novorossiysk will be sent to the Turkish port of Mersin. The service also works in the opposite direction. Shipments from Novorossiysk and Mersin will be made twice a month. The transit time on sea is six days. The first 120 containers sent from Novorossiysk have already arrived in Mersin. The new service will complement the existing multimodal routes of TransContainer from Novorossiysk to the ports of Istanbul and Samsun and back.
