21.11.2007 // Information Department of Volgodonsk NPP/Press service of Rosenergoatom Concern

Rosenergoatom Council for Capital Construction Quality held its first meeting at Volgodonsk NPP on Nov 20–21 2007

Representatives of operating NPPs and ongoing NPP constructions, Atomenergoproekt, NIIAEP, Quality Center Ltd, VNIIAES and other companies took part in the meeting. The meeting was led by the deputy director for development of Rosenergoatom Concern Dmitry Tveritinov.

The key mission of the Council is to work out measures for helping contractor organizations to organize their work — to carry construction operations, to provide services, to supply equipment and to manage working processes — in compliance with the existing laws and standards.

It is not a coincidence that Volgodonsk NPP has been chosen as the venue of the meeting: its unit 2 is the first construction project under the federal target program for the development of the nuclear industry of Russia in 2007–2015. Modern approaches and requirements to construction are based on effective process control, quality management and high safety standards.

In his report on Rosenergoatom’s capital construction plans, Tveritinov said that the share of nuclear power plants in the total energy production in Russia is steadily growing.

The ongoing projects are based on the “turn key” principle. The general contractors of all the ongoing projects are engineering companies. Next year the Government is planning to make a contract for the construction of Leningrad NPP-2.

The conferees discussed problems of quality control, design and estimate documentation, certification of contractor organizations, acceptance of equipment by producer companies, organization of technical supervision.

On the second day of the meeting, the conferees visited the construction site of unit 2.

All proposals and remarks have been summarized in a binding protocol.