01.04.2008 // NTA-Privolzhye

Sergey Kiriyenko: The conduct of the Fair of Nuclear Equipment Construction will help us to ensure transparent competition in our nuclear industry

The conduct of the Fair of Nuclear Equipment Construction will help us to ensure transparent competition in our nuclear industry, the head of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko said after the plenary session held in the framework of the Fair on Monday.

He said that the Fair was an important event from many points of view. Particularly, it will allow making equipment delivery contracts at the initial stage of a construction project.

Kiriyenko said that this allowed reducing the period of such projects by 6 months. Besides, the conduct of fairs allows forming objective and fair price. On the very first day of the Fair the average price dropped by 15%-20%.

This mechanism is a guarantee of fair price and transparent terms for all producers of nuclear equipment.

The  Fair of Nuclear Equipment Construction is being held at Nizhnegorodskaya Yarmarka CJSC on Mar 30-Apr 1 2008

The organizers of the fair are Atomenergoproekt Nizhniy Novgorod CJSC and Nizhnegorodskaya Yarmarka CJSC.

The objectives are as follows:

• promoting programs for construction of new nuclear power plants;
• enhancing the efficiency of the use of state resources and reduction of duration and cost of NPP construction projects;
• coordinating the efforts of all parties to NPP construction projects: designers, general contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers of equipment and materials;
• developing a financial-economic mechanism for effective transfer of money from engineering company to nuclear power equipment constructors.

The task is to conduct a complex of measures: open and closed tenders for supply of equipment for the 2nd unit of Rostov NPP and the 4th unit of Kalinin NPP and an exhibition for companies producing and supplying equipment for nuclear power plants.

The total amount of lots will make up 10bln RUR.

The fair consists of the following events:

1. Conference:

• Plenary session
• Presentation of participant-companies
• Thematic meetings

2. Open tenders for supply of equipment for the 2nd unit of Rosatov NPP and the 4th unit of Kalinin NPP.

3. An exhibition of producers and suppliers of equipment for nuclear power plants.

The key subjects of thematic meetings will be pipeline fittings, high pressure pipes, high-voltage power generating equipment, transformers, electric equipment, automated radiation control systems, industrial television, communication systems, hydraulic equipment, pumps, heat exchange equipment, ventilators, cranes and other weight lifting equipment, automated management systems, construction materials, infrastructure facilities, uniforms and other types of technologies, equipment and services necessary for the construction of nuclear power plants.