Power unit 1 of the Belarus NPP is ready for concrete pouring. “Today we are technically ready for the first concrete at unit 1, – said Valery Limarenko, President of NIAEP Engineering Company, a general contractor. – We expect documents to be duly filed. The documents we are talking about are presidential decree and a license. Efficient work together with our Belarus colleagues allows constructing the NPP a lot ahead of schedule”. According to Vladimir Semashko, the first Deputy PM of Belarus, the licensing of unit 1 is planned for August 15.
Students from the Czech Republic underwent production practice at power units 3 and 4 of the Rostov NPP in Volgodonsk (Rostov region). On site the students got familiar with design features of the object, the system of interacting with contractor organizations and contract relations process. After that the foreign students were practicing for a week in contractors organizations (“Stroyitelnaia industria” (Building industry), “TrestRosSAM”, “SMU-1”), where they could apply their knowledge. At the end of the course the students were to do presentations on production process improvement in terms of safety, quality, productiveness, reduction of all kinds of loss.
The personnel of Russian Federal Nuclear Center – All Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF, Rosatom’s multidiscipline research center) from Sarov, Nizhegorodskaya region, will take part in the international seminar on high-powered proton microscopy in Darmstadt (Germany). The VNIIEF scientists will present reports on the subject of proton radiography, the works on which are being conducted at the U-70 accelerator in Protvino. Physicists from the USA, Germany and China will also take part in the seminar. Today the only functioning proton microscope is located in Los Alamos. Another one is planned to be constructed in Protvino. According to specialists’ estimations it won’t be too expensive, but helping to solve tasks that are important for the institut.
The JSC Akkuyu NPP has submitted an environmental impact assessment (EIA) report on the Akkuyu NPP project to the Ministry of Environment and City Planning of the Republic of Turkey. The report consists of 12 sections and has a total of about 3000 pages. It will be studied by a special commission consisting of representatives of various governmental agencies and institutions, universities and other organizations. The commission will send the results to the Ministry of Environment and City Planning, which will review the commission’s work and make a decision on the report.
It was for the fourth time this current year that the Siberian Chemical Combine (part of TVEL, Rosatom’s fuel company) was visited by the US monitors of the HEU-LEU program. The enterprises representatives of the US Department of Energy National Laboratories conducted planned monitoring of HEU to LEU conversion process at agreed inspection points of the isotope separation, sublimate and chemical and metallurgical plants of the SCC. The follow-up devoted to drawing a balance to the joint work of the SCC and its American partners on the HEU-LEU program is planned for September 2013, to be held during the fifth special visit of the US inspectors.
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna made a cooperation agreement with the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The agreement suggests cooperation development in the field of experimental and theoretical physics, astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics and related technologies, information and technology exchange, exchanging personnel, organizing seminars and schools together. Israeli delegation also visited detector and accelerator labs of the NICA complex in the institute’s High Energy Physics Lab, cyclotron complex of the Nuclear Reaction Lab, IBR-2M reactor of the Neutron Physics Lab and Information Technology Lab.
TENEX (The JSC «Techsnabexport») had indeed much to celebrate on Wednesday, July 17, 2013, when it gathered its customers, employees, and partners at its 50th anniversary gala celebration in Moscow. For many years, the brand name TENEX was not only associated with the Russian enrichment industry, but also as Russia’s sole representative in the global nuclear fuel markets. Following its establishment in 1963, TENEX embarked on a long and successful tenure as one of the world’s largest nuclear energy companies. Today, TENEX has 32 energy customers in 16 countries and has a backlog of long-term contracts worth $28 billion, supplying uranium enrichment services to over one-third of the world’s western-type reactors.
