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The cooperation between Rosenergoatom and Iberdrola (Spain) will continue in 2013 Public Information Center of the Construction Directorate of Baltic NPP, PUBLISHED February 20, 2013 The construction site of Baltic nuclear power plant hosted a meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Cooperation of Rosenergoatom and one of Europe’s largest utilities, Iberdrola (Spain). Before the working meeting the committee members took a tour of the site of Baltic NPP. In the Construction Directorate of Baltic Nuclear Power Plant the guests were briefed on Russia’s advanced designs VVER-TOI and AES-2006 (this design is used for Baltic NPP). Vitaly Trutnev, the Chief Engineer of the Construction Directorate, noted the guests had been interested, in the first place, in differences of the Russian designs from European ones. “One of the main differences is the use of passive safety systems in our designs. Today, the issues of safe operation of NPPs are the issues of the cooperation of those who operates NPPs rather than issues of competition,” Vitaly Trutnev said. In the course of the meeting the Spanish guests demonstrated operational principles of their company, which pursues nearly all types of power generation in Spain. Overseas, the Spanish company has limited itself just to buying an option in the construction of a nuclear power plant in West Cumberland (Great Britain). With this, the Spanish colleagues noted there was still an interest to Baltic NPP on the part of Iberdrola (the plant may become the first Russia’s nuclear project with a foreign investor’s participation). “We think that in the nearest future our participation in the external, foreign market will be limited to the Great Britain. However, we keep interest to Baltic NPP and trace the construction progress with a great interest,” Joaquin Suarez, Director for Nuclear Power in Iberdrola, noted. On the second day of the stay of the Russian-Spanish delegation in the region, that time in Kaliningrad, a committee meeting was held, which summed up results of the Russian-Spanish cooperation in 2012 and refined plans for 2013. “New systems, which increased warranted safety of nuclear power units, have appeared. At this meeting we share our experience. We demonstrate the approaches which we apply and which are applied by them. We supplement and assist each other in entering a higher safety level,” Nikolay Davidenko, Deputy Technical Director of Rosenergoatom, commented on the meeting. The large interaction program includes the involvement of the Spanish specialists in review of Russian designs, the participation in processes related to upgrading and decommissioning of power units, the continuation of implementation of high-precision ultrasonic flow meters at the Russian nuclear power plants. Other news: Chernobyl Nuclear Plant: Business as Usual No one was hurt in the incident, the station's management said. I am deeply proud that TENAM, after our incorporation in 2010, has concluded our first contract with the Fuelco group. Unit 4 of Kalinin NPP released for commercial operation Sergey Kirienko greeted the ceremony participants on the power unit commissioning for the commercial operation. |
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