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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.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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