On the opening day of the General Conference, Rosatom and the IAEA agreed on practical cooperation in radiation safety. They will carry out a joint three-year project involving the Russian Ministry of Health. For the first time ever, a methodology will be developed to assess individual radiation risks for Russian nuclear employees based on their individual exposures. The data obtained will be used to prepare a radiation risk assessment and management guidance for the nuclear industry. No country has ever done research of a comparable scale.
“This agreement is yet another proof of Russia’s global nuclear leadership,” says Vyacheslav Pershukov, Rosatom Deputy CEO for Innovation Management. “Russia will be the first to use a risk-based approach to the assessment of radiation effects. We are ready to share our experience with emerging nuclear countries developing their own civil nuclear programs in association with Rosatom.”
The radiation risk assessment and management guidance will be reviewed by IAEA experts and, if found appropriate, recommended to the IAEA member states. The project will be financed by Rosatom. No support is expected from the IAEA.
Another important document signed on the sidelines of the General Conference was a protocol between Rosatom and the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority. The protocol sets out practical measures to be implemented under the existing intergovernmental agreement on nuclear emergency notifications, and aims at streamlining the cooperation between the two countries. As good neighbors, Russia and Norway have long been developing joint end-of-cycle management solutions and engineering projects at the Kola and Leningrad nuclear power plants. The protocol describes new information exchange procedures regarding nuclear and radiation safety and provides for joint emergency drills and regular consultations.
The 59th IAEA General Conference has become a milestone for Rosatom’s engineering division. Atomstroyexport signed memorandums of cooperation with the French software developer Dassault Systèmes and IBM’s European division to design an integrated full-cycle NPP management system. Previously, the partnership had yielded a set of Multi-D tools applied by Atomstroyexport.
“For the last 3 years of our cooperation with Dassault Systèmes, the world’s leading software company, we have developed NPP design and construction management information systems. We were the first to have adopted 3D-Eхperience, a document management system, earlier this year. Now the entire document flow at the Belarusian NPP is based on this tool,” said Valery Limarenko, Atomstroyexport CEO. “A year ago we were joined by IBM to develop a system module for the management of NPP construction requirements. We have signed a new document today to set an ambitious target – we plan to create a new NPP lifecycle management product which has no equal in the world.”
“For the last 35 years, we have been working in partnership with global giants, such as Boeing and Toyota. We are proud to have Rosatom among our partners and look forward to a new step in our joint efforts. We will make a breakthrough together,” said Laurent Blanchard, Executive Vice President of Dassault Systèmes.
“We are pleased to see that, along with using our turnkey solutions, Rosatom is involved in the development of new products. IBM is glad to be a part of this effort,” adds Kirill Korniliev, IBM Vice President for Sales Central and East Europe.
