10.05.2012
On 10th May, 2012, the control panel in charge of the plant construction project (on Astroviec site in the Hrodna Province, the Republic of Belarus) met for the second time; Vladimir Semashko, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus chaired the meeting. The participants of the meeting included representatives of the government of the Republic of Belarus, Directorate of NPP construction (Customer), NIAEP-ASE (prime designer and contractor in the project), Belorussian subcontractors, and the administration of the Hrodna Province. Before the meeting started the participants had walked down the construction site. At present an administrative housing complex including the Contractor’s office building and the Customer’s office building, a management office, warehouses and a canteen for 500 people are being built. An important event is scheduled on 31st May – start of foundation pit excavation works. V.I. Semashko particularly noted that it was necessary to meet all the deadlines when organizing and executing the works of the preparatory stage. During the meeting the General Contract on construction of the plant was also discussed; the contract is to be signed on 17th June. Yury Pustovoy, deputy director, director of NIAEP representative office in Republic of Belarus, reported on the construction works progress. To date contracts on all the works planned for the year 2012 have been signed with seven Belorussian organizations. The prime contractor for excavation works (the foundation pit) will be determined in the nearest future. Yury Pustovoy paid special attention to the construction dynamics. While the amount of construction works planned for 2012 equals $ 40 mln, the same amount of works is planned for the first quarter of the year 2013. The manpower number will have amounted to 2600 workers by the end of the next year. In May 245 workers will be on the construction site.In this connection another issue was discussed at the meeting: development of a necessary infrastructure on the construction site and in the town of Astroviec. Adam Kovalko, Chairman of the district executive committee, shared the town’s development plans. In April the settlement of Astroviec was conferred the status of a town, therefore, a new general development plan is be approved in the nearest future. New cafes, shop malls, a kindergatern, a school and a hospital are to be erected for the NPP builders. Valery Limarenko, head of NIAEP-ASE, summarized the meeting: ”All the decisions that we made during our joint meetings are executed on time. Moreover, both the Russian and Belorussian parties wish to enhance the dynamics of the works. We see that the Belorussian authorities of different levels – from local authorities up to the government - are interested in the project and it makes us happy. We are ready to involve Belorussian organizations in construction and in equipment delivery and propose them to log in the nuclear materials and resources database. It is an ambitious project which opens the opportunity of accessing the international market”.
Belorussian NPP
On March 15th, 2011, in Minsk, during a meeting of Council of Ministers of the Union State, a cooperation agreement was signed between Government of the Russian Federation and Government of the Republic of Belarus, concerning NPP construction on the territory of Belarus. According to the agreement the Russian party will implement a turnkey construction contract. JSC Atomstroyexport will act as General Contractor, while Directorate of NPP construction (GU “DSAE”) will be Customer. Belorussian NPP will have two power units of total capacity up to 2 400 (2x1200) MW to be erected on Astroviec site in Hrodna Oblast. For construction of the first plant in Belarus the “AES-2006” project was selected. The project fully complies with IAEA international standards and recommendations. On October 11th, 2011, a framework agreement on NPP construction in Belarus was signed. It is a general agreement that defines the main mandatory provisions of the General Contract on Belorussian NPP construction. The landmark of the recent period is the Intergovernmental Agreement on loan to Belarus for NPP construction. Signed on 25th November during the meeting of the High Council of the Union State, the agreement establishes the legal base necessary for the project financing. On January 31, 2012, a contract for survey works, development of basic and detailed design documentation for Belarus NPP project was signed.For reference: on 7th November 2011 Valery Limarenko was appointed the interim single executive of JSC Atomstroyexport (acting president of JSC Atomstroyexport). V. Limarenko also is the Director of JSC NIAEP. Thus, the decision, taken by the State Corporation Rosatom and announced earlier, on the merger of two competencies, namely, JSC NIAEP, a leading engineering company in the Russian nuclear power industry, and JSC ASE, a Russian provider of services for constructing nuclear power facilities abroad, is being executed.
Reference:
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, director of JSC NIAEP – holding company JSC ASE. Site of the company: www.niaep.ru
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