WNN reports that Rosatom will soon present the Russian government with its report for the federal target program (FTP) for nuclear and radiation safety for 2016-2025, director general Sergey Kirienko told Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting on 18 September at Government House. The corporation has completed 108% of the FTP for 2008-2015, and despite a cut in state funding of RUB8.4 billion ($127 million), Kirienko said.
Rosatom published a transcript of their meeting today. Medvedev asked Kirienko the size of Rosatom's order book. This is a particularly important matter now, he said, with the Russian economy in a state of turbulence. Kirienko said that the state nuclear corporation had increased the number of its orders in the last few years by five-and-a-half times, to a total of 30 nuclear power units in 12 countries and are in simultaneous talks in five other countries for more than another 10 units, he said. The value of its orders now totals $300 billion and it continues to grow, he said. Work to construct each new nuclear power unit is worth $5 billion.
Rosatom talks with partners and potential partners during the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference in Vienna last week showed that interest in Russian nuclear technology is not simply being preserved, it is increasing, he said. It may sound immodest, but the truth is that Rosatom is number one today. In recent years, we have not lost a single tender. Everywhere there has been an open tender, we have won it.
The importance of its contracts extends beyond the seven to 10 years required to build new reactors for a customer, he said, since Rosatom guarantees its services for the 60 years a unit will be in operation. In practice, that period will be as long as 100 years, he added. Other work includes the supply of nuclear fuel and, eventually, the decommissioning of a unit and managing its used nuclear waste.
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