OREANDA-NEWS. The 6th international exhibition Power Kazakhstan 2007 started in the southern capital of Kazakhstan, Almaty, on Oct 30 2007.

Power Kazakhstan is the biggest and most-visited energy and lighting exhibition in Central Asia. Over 100 companies from 13 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, China, UAE, Turkey, Denmark, France and Germany, are taking part in the event this year. Among them are leading producers and suppliers of equipment and services for water, thermal and nuclear power plants, energy systems and power transmission lines; producers of energy saving technologies and lighting equipment; construction and maintenance organizations.

Considering the actively developing cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy, the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy has decided to appear at the event with a large exposition presenting the projects and innovative technologies of I.I.Afrikantov OKBM, Hydropress, Lutch, Y.Y.Sedakov Research Institute of Measuring Systems (NIIIS) and Siberian Chemical Plant.

The Russian exposition has been organized by Atomexpo OJSC.

OKBM presents its WBER-300 project – a 300 MW water-water reactor plant based on ship modular reactor technology. This system is supposed to serve as a basic source of electricity and heat for urban areas. It can be used at a floating nuclear power plants for supplying energy and heat to isolated remote regions. Such plants can desalinate sea water – so, they have big export potential. The recently established Russian-Kazakh “Nuclear Power Plants” company is going to shortly start designing NPPs on the basis of WBER-300 reactor.

Hydropress exhibits its WWER-1200 reactor for NPP-2006 project. It is the basic plant under the federal target program for the development of the nuclear industry of Russia in 2007–2010 and -2015. The project is based on WWER-1000 (B-320 type) – a reactor operated by 22 nuclear power units in Russia and abroad. WWER-1200 is an improved version of WWER-1000: it has a capacity of 3200 MW against WWER-1000’s 3000 MW and a service life of 60 years against 30 years. Presently, the reactor is being built at Novovoronezh NPP-2 and Leningrad NPP-2.

NIIIS demonstrates modern information management technologies for NPP automated control systems. Such systems are highly efficient even in case of use of 10,000–20,000 measurement and control channels and help one to build well-reserved structures and to ensure continuous self-control of in-system units. This system is part of NPP-2006 project and has proved its efficiency at the 3rd unit of Kalinin NPP. Now such a system is being tested at Kudankulam NPP in India.

Lutch presents artificial corundum and ceramic articles for power industry, technologies for production of single crystal silicon bars and other modern solutions, particularly, thermo-electrical converters, sensors and micro-fuel based cermet elements. Cermet fuel elements are very safe and efficient. The use of such elements allows to substantially increase the fuel burnup degree.