A working meeting of the Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung and General Director of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Sergey Kirienko was held within the framework of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Russia.
The meeting discussed the construction of the first Vietnamese nuclear power plant and cooperation between Russia and Vietnam in nuclear technology areas. Among all, the PM of Vietnam expressed gratitude to the willingness of the Russian side to provide the necessary loan and assistance in the Ninh Thuan NPP project realization. While the head of Rosatom assured the guest that the State Corporation “will take any effort to justify this trust and will be able to build the most safe and up-to-date nuclear power plant in Vietnam”.
Energomashspetstal (EMSS, part of machine-building division of Rosatom – Atomenergomash) is successfully passing auditing of its foundry and forging, conducted by British Rolls Royce.
Having studied the whole processing chain, from personnel employment to production cycle and product supplying, the auditors recommended EMSS to be included into the list of suppliers for ship-building industry. The partnership agreement between EMSS and Rolls Royce divisions in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Poland is expected to be signed soon.
The entrance exams to Russian MEPhI – National Nuclear Research University, the department of atomic engineering – have started in Turkey.
This year as many as 4500 Turkish citizens handed in their papers, 100 of them will become students. This is already the third intake of Turkish students to study atomic power engineering in Russia. After two years’ master course they will undergo training in Russian NPP training centers, after which the young specialists will be able to get a job at the Akkuyu NPP.
By 2015 Russia will spend RUB 1 trillion for nuclear power development, said Mikhail Ulianov, the Head of the Security and Disarmament Department of the Foreign Ministry at the international negotiations on nuclear safety in Geneva.
This money will be spent updating the industry’s technological platform. “The safety in nuclear power industry should increase with the help of new engineering solutions”, – the diplomat said.
Rosatom plans to sign a new agreement with Ghana within the bounds of the “Nuclear Power of the 21 Century” International Conference that will be held on June 27-29 in Saint-Petersburg.
The Department of Energy and Oil Industry of Ghana already expressed its readiness. According to Benjamin Nyarko, General Director at Ghana’s Atomic Energy Commission, the document will list the specific projects, meant to help the development of nuclear energy in Ghana along with “other projects of mutual interest”.
A scientific visit of Bangladeshi atomists to Russia took place recently, during which the specialists had a two weeks training in “Nuclear-energetic program initialization: choosing site for NPP, pile assembly design and quality provision.
” The visitors studied theoretical aspects of nuclear plant technologies, NF production, licensing issues while choosing a site, compliance control of granted licenses, nuclear safety issues and safety culture. The training was done by Russian experts.
