NIAEP engineering company, the General Contractor of the NPP construction in Belarus is planning to start the concreting of main power units’ buildings of the plant on July 10.
This is what Valery Limarenko, the company’s President, told the journalists on the Multi-D international forum recently held in Moscow. The project has just passed the government expert review, he says. “The project is already issued and currently there’s the Summary Cost Estimate work going on”. Speaking about technical readiness to the construction main stage, V. Limarenko informed us that the building industry base is “fully completed”, “a little ahead of schedule”.
During its visit to Russia a delegation of government executives of Hungarian cities visited SPbAEP, Rosatom’s engineering company.
The country now is studying possibility of developing nuclear energy and shortly plans to post a tender for new power units’ construction. Vladimir Bezlepkin, Deputy Director for Scientific Engineering of the Russian company told the guests about fundamental safety principles of the “AES-2006” project and its key parameters. A virtual control panel of NPP, helping designers to test NPP projects by checking control patterns and design solutions of a project and find ways of design optimization by modelling various situations was demonstrated to the guests. The visitors also saw a new hardware-based expo complex, demonstrating “AES-2006” in 3D and showing its work from inside.
In Central Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (part of Rosatom’s machine-building division – Atomenergomash) an offloading of a new batch of equipment for the Indian Kudankulam was conducted.
That’s where the main circulating water pumps GCNA-139 are installed. The offloaded batch costing RUB 31million includes oil cooler, torsion bars, O-rings and other GCNA-1391 equipment that will be used for schedule preventive maintenance. The Bureau has a long-term experience in GCNA design and production. Machinery is used for creating thermal medium circulation in a pile assembly primary circuit and bears additional function of reactor cooling in case of electricity supply failure.
Rusatom Overseas (Rosatom promoter abroad) participated in the event for suppliers Match INDUSTRY 2013.
Rosatom was presented at the event for the first time and aroused great interest among the participants. More than 50 meetings were held with Finnish companies – manufacturers of the equipment and services for the energy industry. In the interview to the Finnish national TV channel “Yle” Vice-President of Rusatom Overseas Ivo Kouklik confirmed that Rosatom is currently negotiating with the Finnish company Fennovoima on the construction of Pyuhayoki NPP in the north-western Finland. According to him, participation in Match INDUSTRY Event allowed representatives of Rusatom Overseas to get an idea about the opportunities of Finnish industry.
Atomenergomash develops cooperation with French machine-building colossus Alstom – a new order for equipment was received.
The specialists of the Ukranian Energomashspetsstal previously had produced for Alstom a generator rotor and gas and steam-turbine plant rotor within the bounds of NPP low-speed turbine production based on the ARABELLE technology. The French colleagues were quite satisfied with the result and offered EMSS a new order. The enterprise will produce a high-pressure turbine rotor weighing 55 tons and a composite rotor of a low-pressure turbine with total weight of 171 tons, consisting of two shanks and eight disks. The parts are meant for the low-speed turbine of the Baltic NPP that will be produced by Alstom-Atomenergomash joint enterprise. The equipment will undergo a complete production circle and in 2014 will be shipped to the client.
