Engineers are preparing to pour the concrete foundation of the Baltic Nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad. Once underway, it will be the ninth power reactor under construction in Europe.
Having spent five years combining its nuclear power, engineering and scientific enterprises into the single entity of Rosatom, Russia now sees privatisation of the firm as part of a plan for industrial modernisation.
While the deadline for the signing of the project agreement for Bulgaria's planned Belene nuclear power plant approaches, the government continues to seek partners to help finance the project. Russia's AtomStroyExport warned that it will stop work on the project unless the agreement is signed.
The first concrete has been poured for the foundation of the twin-unit Baltic nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad, marking the official start of construction of the first reactor there.
An experimental test batch of fuel assemblies is to be supplied to a Swedish reactor under a contract signed between Russian fuel manufacturer TVEL and Vattenfall. 48.jpg "Novovoronezh_2_SG_arrives_(Atomenergoproekt)_48")
Rosatom head Sergei Kiryenko has indicated that the second phase of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant will start operations up to two years later than previous estimates suggest.
Upgrade work will enable the lives of three RBMK reactors at the Smolensk site in Russia to be extended until the first new unit of a replacement plant is up, according to Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko. _615x160.jpg)
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Engineers are preparing to pour the concrete foundation of the Baltic Nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad. Once underway, it will be the ninth power reactor under construction in Europe.
The first of four steam generators for the second phase of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in Russia has been transported to the construction site by rail._615x160.jpg)
Russia will soon start storing used fuel from its RBMK-1000 and VVER-1000 reactors in a new centralized 'dry' interim storage facility at Zheleznogorsk. The first phase of the facility was recently completed and the first RBMK fuel will shortly be delivered._64x48.jpg "Young Physicist (Olga Maltsev - TVEL) 64x48")
A new corporate strategy for Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL aims to more than double nuclear revenue by 2030, while adding a new energy storage business.