Contract is signed to initiate preparatory works on the General agreement for construction of fast neutron reactor-based NPS in China

04.12.2012
On 29th of November, 2012 contract to initiate preparatory works on the General agreement for Fujian Xianming fast neutron primary sodium 800 MW NPS was signed.
The signing became the closing stage of negotiations between the Merged company of JSC NIAEP - JSC Atomstroyexport (JSC ASE), the Fujian Xianming Atomic Power Engineering Company (FXAPEC) and the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), which were carried out according to decisions of the Russian - Chinese Subcommittee on nuclear matters within the Commission on preparation of regular meetings of the government executives of Russia and China.
The contract discharge will create a basis for approval of the Intergovernmental Agreement on cooperation for construction of two fast neutron power units of NPS.
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The merged company JSC NIAEP – JSC Atomstroyexport (ASE) was established in March 2012 by the resolution of the State atomic energy corporation Rosatom. Thus, NIAEP has become a holding company JSC ASE. The structure of the new consolidated company represents a network of offices in charge of construction project management, including: - a design institute in Nizhny Novgorod;- three offices in charge of NPP construction project management (in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow and St-Petersburg);- representative offices in 10 countries of Europe and Asia where projects are being executed or planned (Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, Iran, India, China, Turkey, Czechia, Slovakia and Ukraine). Today over 4000 people are working for our company; this figure amounts to over 7000 if the personnel of the subsidiaries is included. 20 projects either being under construction or design are now underway in Russia and abroad. List of the power plants under construction and design carried out by the merged company:- Kalinin NPP 4;- Rostov NPP 3 and 4;- Baltic NPP 1 and 2;- Nizhny Novgorod NPP 1 and 2;- Uzhnouralskaya GRES-2 Units 1 and 2;- Tianwan NPP 3 and 4 (China);- Bushehr NPP -1 (Iran);- Akkuyu NPP 1 and 2 (Turkey);- Belarus NPP 1 and 2;- Kudankulam NPP 1 and 2 (India);- Ninh thuan 1 and 2 (Vietnam). Valery Limarenko, doctor of economics, president of JSC NIAEP – holding company JSC ASE. Site of the company: www.niaep.ru


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