The Central Design Bureau of Machine Engineering (CDBME, part of ROSATOM’s machine engineering division, Atomenergomash) has manufactured and shipped off equipment for Kozloduy NPP (Bulgaria). A set for upgrading the reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) was sent to the plant. The set includes modernized casings, removable sections, main joint studs, and main joint seals. The order cost was RUB 38 million.  The CDBME has longstanding experience in design and development of RCPs. This equipment is used to circulate the coolant in the primary circuit of the reactor and additionally provide reactor cooling if power supply is disrupted. 
 

Students from departments of physics, machine engineering, electrical and electronics industries of Nigde University (Turkey) and teacher of the nuclear physics chair of the faculty of natural sciences and literature Professor Sefa Erturk, Ph.D. visited the Public Information Center (PIC) of Akkuyu NPP in Mersin, which was started by ROSATOM. The guests were comprehensively informed on the Akkuyu NPP construction project in Mersin Province. They were shown a documentary on the Akkuyu NPP project and Russian VVER reactor, which is world-famous for its safety and reliability which are ones of the best in the world. Using pictorial diagrams, mock-up and state-of-the-art visualization techniques, the PIC specialists provided a guided tour of the center for the students. Faruk Uzel, the Director of Akkuyu NPP PIC, addressed the students to provide data on electricity consumption growth rate in Turkey. He said: “NPPs are perfectly stable and environment-friendly source of electricity. Nuclear power plants feature high energy production, while having a small footprint. A NPP operating period is much longer than that of other type of power plants. Nuclear power will allow diversifying the country’s energy mix and thus, reducing hydrocarbons imports.”

Shareholders of the International Uranium Enrichment Center (IUEC, part of the Fuel Company of ROSATOM TVEL) at their extraordinary meeting approved importation of uranium feed, i.e. uranium oxide concentrate, from Ukraine to Russia. This will be the third in a row delivery of Ukraine’s uranium oxide concentrate to IUEC. The IUEC shareholders are Russia (70%), Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Armenia (each has 10%). IUEC was established at the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Complex to provide uranium enrichment service to non-nuclear states. Enriched uranium is used to fabricate fuel assemblies (and fuel rods) and to supply nuclear fuel to its shareholder-countries.