29.06.2011
In Beijing Atomstroyexport JSC, a company of State Corporation Rosatom, and Jangsu Nuclear Power Corporation (JNPC) signed an Attachment No. 23 to the General Contract for construction of Tianwan NPP power units 3 and 4 (Lianyungang town, China). Signing of the document determining commercial and payment conditions of the General Contract means agreement upon the last contract document necessary for entering into force of the General Contract. According to the agreement between the parties, the contract will enter into force in the first half of August 2011 at the latest, after passing through necessary domestic procedures, enabling in August to start financing of the project and ordering the equipment in accordance with the contract conditions.
The General Contract for construction of Tianwan NPP second phase was signed between Atomstroyexport JSC and JNPC on November 23, 2010 in Saint-Petersburg. According to the General Contract, Atomstroyexport JSC will construct Tianwan NPP units 3 and 4 under the design analogous to the fist phase: two power units of Russian design with reactor plants VVER-1000 1060 MW electric capacity each. Design and supply of equipment for the nuclear plant conventional island will be implemented by JNPC.
Tianwan NPP is designed in accordance with the contract signed between ASE JSC and JNPC on September 29, 2010. In spite of events at Fukushima NPP in Japan, design documentation is developed in accordance with the contract schedule providing for the first concrete laying in the reactor foundation of Tianwan NPP unit No. 3 in December 2012.
Reference:
The first phase of Tianwan NPP consisting of two power units was constructed by Atomstroyexport JSC in order to implement the Intergovernmental Agreement between RF and PRC concerning cooperation in construction of a nuclear power plant in PRC. Having put the first unit of Tianwan NPP into guarantee operation for the Chinese customer on June 2, 2007, and the second unit – on September 12, 2007, Atomstroyexport was the first to construct power units of new generation in the international market of NPP construction. Two year guarantee operation of Tianwan NPP units 1 and 2 was accomplished in 2009. Tianwan NPP constructed under updated Russian design is the most state-of-the-art plant among nuclear plants operating in PRC.
At the Symposium of Tianwan NPP Construction Participants held in August 2010 in Lianyungang the Chinese party stated: the plant had achieved a record among the NPPs operated in China with regard to duration of continuous operation within the period of the first fuel cycle.
