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Construction of unit 5 of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant has formally begun with the pouring of first concrete for the foundation plate of the reactor building at the site in Tamil Nadu, India. It was launched today by Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas, chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, in the presence of Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachov and Satish Kumar Sharma, managing director of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), in a ceremony that had to be held via videoconference owing to COVID-19 restrictions.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Construction-begins-on-third-stage-of-Kudankulam
The pandemic has shown the resilience of the nuclear industry to act responsibly, both as a supplier of energy and as an employer, the head of the world's biggest uranium producer said today. In his address to delegates at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle forum, Kazatomprom CEO Galymzhan Pirmatov said the wellbeing of the company's 20,000 employees was his first priority.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 15 April 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kazatomprom-put-health-before-profit-during-pandem
Mr Kreivys said in the interview: “The Polish nuclear project, which is being developed under European Union regulations, cannot be compared with the Russian project in Belarus, which raises growing concerns.”
He said Lithuania was not consulted over the deployment of the two-unit Belarusian nuclear station and it is in violation of the Espoo Convention, which requires trans-border consultation on nuclear facilities.
Mr Kreivys raised questions about the independent status of the Belarusian nuclear regulator and said that the Belarusian station had failed 27 stress tests with only a handful of issues having been addressed.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 25 March 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/energy-minister-says-belarusian-nuclear-project-raises-growing-concerns-3-3-2021
He told the state channel that this would allow Rosatom to proceed with first concrete, making the Akkuyu project “the world’s largest nuclear construction site”, where four units are being built simultaneously.
He said the Covid-19 pandemic has not affected the company’s schedules for Akkuyu, the first commercial nuclear project in Turkey.
Last week, a virtual ceremony marked the start of construction Akkuyu-3. Construction of the station’s first two units, Akkuyu-1 and -2, began in April 2018 and in April 2020.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 18 March 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/russia-expecting-construction-licence-for-akkuyu-4-by-end-of-summer-3-3-2021
The European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (Ensreg) has approved the preliminary report on a peer review of the new Belarusian nuclear power plant in Ostrovets. Adopted by consensus on 3 March, the report follows a mission by Ensreg technical experts to the plant site on 9 and 10 February.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 March 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ensreg-approves-Ostrovets-peer-review-report
The engineering division of Rosatom, Atomenergomash, has launched a programme for assessment and training of workers before they are sent to foreign construction sites, Rosatom said on 1 March. The engineering division includes the leading companies in the nuclear industry, in particular ASE EC JSC (Nizhny Novgorod), Atomstroyexport JSC (Nizhny Novgorod), Atomenergoproekt JSC (Moscow), Atomproekt JSC (St Petersburg). The division is a world leader in terms of the portfolio of orders and the number of NPPs under construction abroad. Foreign projects account for about 80% of the division's revenue.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 04 March 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-combines-covid-quarantine-periods-with-training-for-workers-at-npp-sites-abroad-8564326
Russia’s ADE-2 industrial uranium-graphite reactor at the Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC) in Zheleznogorsk, is to become become a nuclear industry museum, joining the world's first nuclear icebreaker Lenin and the Obninsk NPP, the world's first civil nuclear power plant. The ceremony, marking the event on 27 February was held mostly online because of pandemic restrictions. A live broadcast connected representatives of almost all MCC divisions located in different halls, while direct participants had passed testing for COVID-19 the day before.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-ade-2-industrial-uranium-graphite-reactor-to-become-museum-8561354
Finnish energy company Fennovoima said on 21 December that it had conditionally accepted the documents for the Basic Design Stage 1 of the Hanhikivi-1 NPP provided by plant supplier, Russia’s RAOS Project (part of Rosatom).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 23 December 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfennovoima-conditionally-basic-design-documents-for-hanhikivi-1-8422940
The move comes in relation to the new Belarusian nuclear power station near Ostrovets, where two Russia-supplied plants are nearing completion. Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom is the general contractor for both plants and the cost of the two units, largely funded by a loan from Moscow, has been reported as $11bn (€9.3bn).
The decision was announced on Friday following a meeting of the Council in Brussels that also discussed issues including climate change, Covid-19 and security issues.
In a document outlining the meeting’s conclusions, the Council said it “underlines the importance of ensuring nuclear safety of the Belarusian nuclear power station Ostrovets”.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 15 December 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/council-calls-for-possible-measures-on-electricity-imports-from-nuclear-plants-12-5-2020
Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom has repatriated 178 employees from the Rooppur nuclear power plant construction site in Bangladesh.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 09 April 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-evaucates-some-employees-from-bangladesh-nuclear-site-7864853