ROSATOM has started negotiations with China on building nuclear power units in the PRC’s inland, ROSATOM CEO Sergey Kirienko told journalists on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday. The reactors can be built to a Russian technology. He noted that a decision to build Units 7 and 8 of Tianwan NPP hasn’t been made yet and added that Units 5 and 6 will be built for sure.

ROSATOM joined Top-10 rating of the best employers Universum TOP-100 in Russia for 2014. The rating was built up basing on a study of preferences of students from Russian universities. The study embraced more than 14,000 students from 84 universities in Russia. ROSATOM took part in this study for the first time and at once was given the tenth place by students of technical and natural science specialties. Beside ROSATOM the first ten companies in this area are Gazprom, Rosneft, Google, Transneft, Lukoil, Microsoft, BMW Group, Volkswagen Group, and Yandex. Also, ROSATOM was given an award in the category “Newcomer” as the company that got into the first thirty companies of the rating. 

Specialists from Rovno nuclear power plant (Ukraine) worked at Kola NPP from May 19 till May 23, 2014. Their visit was to study the Russian experience in preparing procedures for repair and operation of the plant systems. According to head of the Department for Repair of Rovno NPP Nikolay Ponomarenko, this procedure worth special attention and should not be just studied but also implemented at Ukrainian sites. “In particular, the accounting of dose burdens of the personnel changes for the better, which is positive in terms of protection of labor and health of the plant staff, Ponomarenko emphasized. “That is why we decided to study the Integrated Work Order in more detail and in the exact place where it was worked out, i.e. at Kola nuclear power plant.” In future, the best practices of Kola NPP – electronic procedures for release of documents, formalizing work orders, accounting of dose burdens – will be reviewed and implemented as a pilot project at one of departments of Rovno NPP.