Rosatom took part in 38th Annual Symposium of the World Nuclear Association (WNA), held in London on September 11-13,2013, presenting, among all, a joint exhibition stand with the participation of the following enterprises: NIAEP engineering company; Technabexport, the world’s major supplier of NFC items and services; TVEL fuel company; Hydropress, a designer of theoretical, analytical, R&D and production activities in reactor development for nuclear power plants; Atomenergoprom – a company, consolidating civil assets of nuclear power; The International Uranium Enrichment Center; Mining and Chemical Combine; Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ) etc. The stand showed the information concerning the position of Rosatom at the nuclear world market along with the Corporation’s complex offer, providing infrastructural, industrial, energy, financial and HR-solutions.
The plenary session of the IAEA’s Contact Expert Group (CEG) on the implementation of the program the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction in the Russian Federation will be held in Murmansk on October 9, 2013. The event will be attended by representatives of the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, Germany, Sweden, the USA, Norway, Finland, Denmark, EBRD and Russia. The session is to listen to activity reports of international members of CEG, as well as CEG will report on its activities in the past period. In particular, the plenary session will review results, achievements and outstanding issues of elimination of the nuclear legacy facilities in Russia in 2012-2013. On October 10 the technical tours to sites will be organized (Long-term Reactor Compartments Storage Facility in Saida Bay and Temporary SNF and RAW Storage Facility in Andreeva Bay), where international projects aimed at improvement of the ecological situation in North-West Russia are being implemented.
October 8-9, 2013, in Brno, Czech Republic, the European Forum of the Nuclear Industry Suppliers “ATOMEX-Europe will be held as a part of 55th “MSV 2013” International Engineering Fair. Among other things, the Forum will offer a conference where the participants are going to discuss their capacity for innovation and international collaboration opportunities, Russian NPPs in the world, forming supply chains, Central Europe, including Czech, experience and potential in producing nuclear industry equipment along with export-import capabilities of banks while working with atomic industry suppliers.
To increase efficiency of the Forum, the participants will have an opportunity to interactively organize meetings with Russian atomic industry representatives, which will allow the attendees to plan meetings and conduct negotiations with their today’s and potential suppliers of equipment and services.
The event will unite Russian and foreign experts along with heads of large atomic industry organizations and enterprises.
The Federal Service for Ecology, Technology and Atomic Energy of Russia (Rostechnadzor) and the Emergency Situation Ministry of Belarus are to hold negotiations on the point of making an agreement on cooperation in nuclear and radiation safety regulation while using atomic energy in peaceful purposes. Russia and Belarus currently implement a joint project, constructing NPP in Ostrovets (Belarus). The project suggests building two power units with a total capacity of 2400 MW. The concreting at the site is planned to start in September.
The World Association‘s of Nuclear Operators (WANO) Moscow Center held a technical support mission at the Tianwan NPP, titled “Studying of surveillance specimens of reactor vessel and applying the results“. At the event the experts shared their experience in organizing the process of the surveillance specimens handling along with the experience of meeting the requirements of regulatory and working papers while handling surveillance specimens. They also interviewed the personnel that do the handling. As a result a few recommendations and offers for the process improvement were elaborated. The participants highly appreciated the mission’s quality and efficiency.
The main topic of bilateral meeting of Russian and Argentinian presidents, a part of the G20 summit having been held in Saint-Petersburg, were future joint projects in the sphere of hydro and nuclear power, according to Argentinian mass media. As said Cristina Kirchner, the President of Argentina, she and Russian President had been discussing “the possibility of infrastructural projects in hydropower and nuclear energy sphere“ in Argentina. She said, the two presidents had decided to “keep in touch by means of the two countries‘ foreign services“, as well as “establish a commitee to work on these topics“.
