29.07.2008 // Press Service Department of Rosatom State Corporation

In 2011 Rosatom will have most modern container ship

Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Crorporation Sergey Kiriyenko has met with Economic Development Minister of Italy Claudio Scajola.

As a result of the meeting, Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy have signed an agreement for the designing and construction of a ship for transportation of containers with spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste.

The document was signed by Deputy Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Yevgeny Yevstratov and Head of Industrial Policy Management Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy Giovanni Battista Narbone. The cost of the work to be done under the agreement is 71.5mln EUR. The project will be financed by the Italian side.

The vessel will be designed by Fincantieri company (Italy). It will have a gross tonnage of 4,000 tons and is to be built in 2.5 years. So, in 2011 the ship will already be in service.

The vessel will have the following parameters: length – 84 meters, breadth – 14 meters, height – 16.7 meters, full draft – 4 meters. The ship will have two hermetic cargo holds capable of holding a total of 720 tons (18 containers 40 tons each). The ship will be able to carry any type of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. It will meet all Russian and international safety standards. The ship will have a revolving electro-hydraulic crane with a weight-lifting capacity of 45 tons and a radius of 4–15 meters. The vessel will have a speed of 12 knots and will be able to autonomously navigate for two months (60 days). The maximum steaming distance will be 3,000 sea miles.

Rosatom has named Atomflot FSUE as the owner and the operator of the container ship. Due to high ice reinforcement the ship will be able to navigate the arctic seas in the summer and autumn. The vessel is supposed to go along the Northern Sea Route between the village of Gremikha, Andreyev Bay, Saida Bay, Severodvinsk and other nuclear submarine recycling sites. The ship is supposed to meet North-Western Russia’s demand for such vessels.

The next big Russian-Italian project in the field of nuclear safety will be the construction of radioactive waste treatment and storage facilities at Andreyev Bay. The parties have already completed their joint project to dismantle two nuclear submarines. Presently, they are dismantling a Victor 601 class submarine and will shortly start to dismantle Victor-604 class submarines (4.7mln EUR project).

Note

During a meeting in Rome on Nov 5 2003, in the framework of the Global Partnership initiative, the governments of Russia and Italy concluded a 10-year agreement for cooperation in the field of dismantlement of decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines and safe treatment of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. Italy undertook to allocate 360mln EUR under the agreement.

Fincantieri, heir to the great tradition of Italian shipbuilding, is today one of the largest groups in the world in the design and construction of merchant and naval vessels.

The company’s core business is the construction of complex ships with high technological content such as cruise ships and large ferries.

Moreover, it is the reference builder in the naval field providing a wide range of ship types including surface vessels (frigates, corvettes, patrol vessels etc.) and submarines.

Fincantieri sets out to be a partner to ship owners and to the defence sector with innovative, tailor-made products backed by a high service level.

The company’s wide ranging engineering expertise and capacity to build prototypes enable it to take up new opportunities on the market by developing tailor-made products.

In the field of ship repairs and conversions, especially for passenger ships and offshore vessels, Fincantieri provides services worldwide and organises interventions to be carried out at its own facilities or at third party facilities with the aim of reducing the amount of time the ship is out of service and in accordance with customer requirements.

It develops and builds naval systems (stabilisers, solutions and components for propulsion and power generation etc.), industrial turbines, as well as diesel engines, for both marine and industrial application through its subsidiary Isotta Fraschini Motori.

The company also draws on its expertise to create complex, high value designs for the luxury niche market of mega yachts of over 70 metres.

The container ship for Rosatom will be build at one of the two shipyards of the company: either at Riva Trigoso (Genoa) or at Muggiano (La Spezia).

For more information see www.fincantieri.it.