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Mar 30, 2012
Russia’s Rosatom nuclear group supports localisation in nuclear projectBackChernobyl|Construction|Engineering|Africa|Industrial|Nuclear|PROJECT|Projects|Rosatom|Safety|Water|Africa|Czech Republic|Japan|South Africa|Building|Nuclear|Project Finance|Public Relations|Services|Ivan Dybov|Power|Water
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Moreover, Rosatom overseas public relations VP Ivan Dybov told Engineering News Online on Friday, experience shows that the building of an NPP directly creates 10 000 construction jobs and indirectly creates another 60 000 jobs in the construction supplies and services sectors. “We always try to localise a lot of activities – for example in the construction supply chain. It makes our project cheaper,” he assures. “We try for maximum involvement of local companies in our projects. We want to involve local companies not only in the projects in their own countries but also in Rosatom projects all over the world. We’ve good experience of cooperating with local companies. We have a lot of projects so we have to have good partners all over the world.” The Russian group can provide a wide range of options, he highlights, and can provide a fully integrated solution, covering industrial development, fuel supply, assistance with the development of regulations, training, the transfer of knowledge and financing. “As a government corporation we can access government loans and so help with the project finance. This is very important for many countries.” Currently, Rosatom has more nuclear projects around the world that any other company. The group currently has 21 contracts – ten of them signed in the past year, after the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan. The company is currently bidding on an NPP project in the Czech Republic. “The Czech Republic has a very high level of nuclear industry and we want to use them in other Rosatom projects,” reports Dybov. “There is the possibility of the same in South Africa.” The standard reactor Rosatom currently offers international clients is the VVER 1200. The VVER is a pressurised water reactor (PWR). Russian VVER reactors are, Dybov assures, safe. “After Chernobyl, we became very safety-minded.” (The Chernobyl disaster involved an RBMK reactor, which is totally different from PWR/VVER designs.) Edited by: Creamer Media Reporter
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