
‘The international community must boycott the Russian nuclear industry’
“The Russian nuclear company Rosatom is not just another energy company. It is a state within the state, and a political instrument for the Kremlin. ...
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Publish date: March 10, 2009
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The company is reported to be on target to complete the reactor pressure vessel for the BN-800 fast reactor at Beloyarsk early next year – in time for commercial operation in 2012, according to a Nuclear.Ru report.
It is investing 2.9 billion roubles ($83 million) by 2015, with 1 billion roubles ($28.5 million) of that to come by the end of 2009. The company is also making steam generators for new nuclear power plants plants at Novovoronezh, Kalinin 4 and Leningrad.
Since 2006, ZiO-Podolsk has been a 51 percent -owned subsidiary of Atomenergomash, with the remainder owned 25 percent by Renova Group and 24 percent by EMAlliance, WWN said.
The BN-800 reactor pressure vessel is 13 metres in diameter, and a unique 16-meter rotary-table milling machine is needed to manufacture it. Steel for the component has been sourced from South Korea, WNN reported.
Separately, Power Machines’ Kaluga Turbine Plant is to make a share offer worth 780 million roubles ($2.2 million) to help fund an investment program worth over 1.2 billion roubles ($2.2 million) to 2012.
By that date, reports WWN, the facility managers are aiming to double output of steam turbines after purchasing manufacturing equipment from Italy, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland.
“The Russian nuclear company Rosatom is not just another energy company. It is a state within the state, and a political instrument for the Kremlin. ...
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