Nuclear Russia

Russia currently operates 10 nuclear power plants with a total of 31 reactors producing 143 TWh of power that cover some 15 percent of the country’s electricity needs (about 3 percent in the energy balance). Half of the country’s reactors are considered high-risk by international experts. Eight of Russia’s 10 nuclear power plants are in the European part of Russia, East of the Ural. Two others are east of the Urals―one in Far Eastern Siberia. Typically, Russian nuclear power plants run either VVER type reactors (15) or graphite moderated RBMK reactors (11) of the fatally-flawed Chernobyl-type. Other reactor types include the EPR-6, and the BN-60 fast neutron reactor. Civilian nuclear power plants in Russia are owned and operated by the state-owned Rosenergoatom company. Of special concern are the RBMK’s that are still in service, and those reactors that receive extensions of their engineered life span―a dangerous, and often illegally performed, process to squeeze more time out of reactors that should be decommissioned.

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[ 10.06.2009 ]
Russia secures America’s Exelon as its fourth customer in growing number of commercial uranium deals
US utility Exelon Corp, which owns America’s largest fleet of nuclear reactors, signed a long-term uranium supply contract with Russian nuclear fuel exporter Tekhsnabexport (Tenex) Exelon said in a statement on Wednesday, making it the fourth American energy company to order nuclear fuel from Moscow under purely commercial circumstances.
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whitehouse.gov

[ 09.06.2009 ]
Obama fully backs nuke fuel bank, Russia still a contender
US President Barack Obama has lifted all doubt that he plans to spear-head the creation of an international uranium fuel bank during speeches on a swing through the Middle East in an effort to limit individual nations’ ability to create nuclear weapons while at the same time obtain nuclear fuel for their atomic energy programmes.
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Charles Digges

[ 01.06.2009 ]
Rosatom says uranium tail contracts will not be renewed, citing economic infeasibility
ST. PETERSBURG – In a landmark and long awaited decision, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced it is not interested in extending contracts to import depleted uranium hexafluoride, or uranium tails, for further enrichment in Russia under contracts it signed with Germany and France, said Rosatom spokesman Igor Konyshev.
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NEWS
[ 12.06.2009 ]
Russian nuke plants complain of misinformation hoax to scare the public

Several Russian nuclear power plants claim they have been the target of a so-called information terror campaign spreading false information about an alleged nuclear accident, according to the country's nuclear powr plant operator, Energoatom.

[ 11.06.2009 ]
Putin moves toward Obama in notion to abandon nuclear weapons

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said his country could give up nuclear weapons if everyone else that had them did the same, world news agencies reported late Wednesday.

[ 10.06.2009 ]
AtomEnergoProekt snags Volgodonsk contract

Nizhniy Novgorod AtomEnergoProekt has won the tender as principal contractor for the construction of the third and fourth reactors at the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant in Russia. The company has also completed assembling the initial reactor for Russia's first floating nuclear power plant.

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BLOGS
Posted 02.02.2009 in Vladimir Slivyak's blog by Vladimir Slivyak

Global economic slump may lay bare nuclear safety and proliferation problems

Comments to the yearly report by the Russian industrial safety oversight agency Rostekhnadzor and ruminations on whether there is any logic to be found in the state nuclear corporation Rosatom’s actions.

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