01.04.2008 // NTA-Privolzhye

The Fair of Nuclear Equipment Construction will break the stereotype that Russia’s nuclear industry is “closed” to the public

The Fair of Nuclear Equipment Construction will break the stereotype that Russia’s nuclear industry is “closed” to the public, Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko said during the plenary session conducted on Monday in the framework of the Fair.

He said that one of the key problems of Russia’s nuclear industry is that it is still regarded as absolutely closed, forbidden area, “a place for no strangers.” “So, our task is to break this stereotype,” Kiriyenko said.

While the military sector of the industry will remain closed to the public but the civil sector must be absolutely open and transparent. Rosatom welcomes new suppliers in the industry but sets specific requirements to them: high quality, timely delivery and fair price. 

Even though tenders should be absolutely open, their participants should undergo serious preliminary selection.

Kiriyenko pointed out that the Fair was open to all companies, even to the ones who had failed their commitments before.

“I agree that each company can be given one more chance but only one chance. We cannot afford working with companies failing their obligations,” Kiriyenko said.

He pointed out that Rosatom would set very tough requirements to equipment suppliers. “But if you comply with our standards you will have guaranteed contracts for decades ahead,” Kiriyenko said.

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.