Rosatom comments on Temelin tender
The Czech company ČEZ cancelled the tender for construction of two power units of Temelin NPP, the company said on its official website. In this regard, the Communications Department of ROSATOM is authorized to circulate the following statement: “We respect the actions of the customer, the company ČEZ. We understand that today’s structure of the Temelin NPP construction project assumes that ČEZ has the governmental guarantees of buy-out prices of future electricity, and that in the absence of such guarantees it is difficult for the Czech customer to enter the project implementation stage. On our part, we state that after ČEZ and the Czech Government approve the integrated nuclear industry development plan of the Czech Republic, we will be glad to take part in its implementation.”

Documentation for licenses nuclear icebreakers is accepted
Rostechnadzor accepted OKBM Afrikantov’s documentation required for getting licenses to build the first and second series nuclear icebreakers with RITM-200 reactors, OKBM Press Service reports. The tender for building the two nuclear-propelled icebreakers of Project 22220 with 60-megawatt reactors is to be summed up on April 17. The two ships are to be completed before December 25, 2019 and December 25, 2020, respectively. The initial price of building the ships is about RUB 84.4 Billion.

First batch of valves to Rovinari TPS
ARAKO spol s.r.o. (Czech Republic, part of Atomenergomash, ROSATOM’s machine engineering division) has shipped off a first batch of valves to Rovinari Thermal Power Station under construction (Sitano Grup SRL, Romania). Most of the batch is high-pressure valves. It also includes forged high pressure valves that are new products for ARAKO’s product list (valves were designed especially for this power station). Rovinari Thermal Power Station is the largest electricity producer in Romania; its total power capacity is 1,320 MW. Now the plant undergoes upgrades, which will result in a total power capacity of 1.82 GW.