16.05.2013
On May 15, 2013 meeting of the control board charged for the Belorussian NPP construction headed by Vladimir Semashko, First Deputy Minister of the Republic of Belarus was held.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the government of the Republic of Belarus , Directorate of the NPP construction (Customer), the merged company JSC NIAEP-JSC Atomstroyexport (General Designer and Contractor), Belorussian subcontractors, and representatives of the Grodno region Administration.
The participants inspected the construction site and discussed work progress on the storage and supply facilities and the NPP.
The total scope of works performed on the storage and supply facilities is about 60%. Currently, are being executed works on the territory improvement of the storage and supply facilities, are being completed works on the engineering networks, internal and external furnishings of personnel facilities and office buildings. At the end of May a building of special metallic constructions and reinforcements with a cold store will be ready to receive reinforcements. In June off - site networks and structures of drinking and fire water plumbing will be ready.
In September 2013 it is planned to complete works on all the 62 structures of supply and storage facilities and off-site network objects and constructions that provide a complex functioning of the supply and storage facility.
Now active preparations for the works of the main construction period of the Belorussian NPP are starting. According to Yuri Pustovoy, JSC NIAEP Director of the Belorussian NPP construction, to perform the annual plan it is indispensible to start up construction and assembly works on 10 structures of the nuclear and turbine islands of Unit 1.
The issues of equipment procurement, expertise of the design documentation and the issue of the aggregate estimation of the Belorussian NPP were also discussed at the meeting.
On February 1, 2013 started ditch excavation for Unit 2. Presently, works are being simultaneously executed on the both Units.
Valery Limarenko, President of JSC NIAEP-managing company of JSC ASE, summed up the meeting: « Work on the NPP construction is proceeding as per the schedule and sometimes ahead of it. All the emerging problems are immediately solved. Our main task is to build a paramount energy object in Belorussia in time. »
The Belorussian NPP
On March 15 th , 2011, in Minsk , during meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State , cooperation agreement was signed between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Belarus, concerning NPP construction in the territory of the country. According to the agreement the Russian party will accomplish «turnkey» construction. JSC Atomstroyexport will act as General Contractor, while the Directorate of NPP construction will be Customer. The Belorussian NPP will have two power units of total capacity up to 2400 (2x1200) MW to be constructed at Ostrovets site in the Grodno region. For construction of the first Belorussian NPP the «AES-2006» project was selected to be implemented. The project fully complies with IAEA international standards and recommendations. On October 11 th , 2011, contract agreement on NPP construction in Belarus was signed. The contract agreement is essentially a general agreement that defines the main mandatory provisions of the General contract on the Belorussian NPP construction.
The significant event of the recent period became the signing of Intergovernmental Agreement on loan to Belarus for NPP construction. Signed on 25 th November during the meeting of the High Council of the Union State , the agreement establishes the legal base necessary for the project financing.
On 31 st January 2012, a contract for survey works, development of basic and detailed design documentation for Belarus NPP project was signed.
On 18 th July , 2012 on the meeting sums of the Council of Ministers of the Union State in the presence of prime ministers Dmitry Medvedev and Mikhail Myasnikov the general contract on construction of Belorussian NPP was signed.
The contract was signed by Valery Limarenko, Director of JSC NIAEP - JSC Atomstroyexport (JSC ASE), for the Russian party and Mikhail Filimonov, Director of General Board « Directorate of the NPP construction».
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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 of JSC ASE.
The s tructure of the merged company represents a network of offices in charge of construction project management, including:
- design institute in Nizhny Novgorod ;
