OREANDA-NEWS. January 23, 2008. The constructors of Novovoronezh NPP-2 continue vertical planning of the site, in Dec they removed 1,000,000 c m of soil. A total of 3,000,000 c m of soil have been removed from the site so far. The plan is 7,500,000 c m.

AEP has already started preparing the area for the foundations of the reactor compartment of the first unit.

According to its contract, Izhora Plants continues manufacturing equipment for the reactor, particularly, rings for the reactor shell, the steam generator and the pressure compensator, reactor pit, protective pipes.

Note

Atomenergoproekt (Moscow) is one of the key engineering companies of Rosatom. AEP has designed most nuclear power plants in Russia, Eastern Europe and the CIS, particularly, Bushehr NPP in Iran and Kudankulam NPP in India. It is the general designer of Belene NPP in Bulgaria.

On May 29 2007 Atomenergoproekt was proclaimed the general contractor of Novovoronezh NPP-2 project. In June 2007 the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy and Atomenergoproekt signed a sate contract for the construction of the 1st and 2nd units of the plant. The 1st unit is to be launched in 2012, the 2nd one — in 2013. The total financing is 130bln RUR.

Thus, Atomenergoproekt is the first Rosatom engineering company to have won the right to build an NPP in Russia in the framework of the federal target program for the development of the nuclear power industry of Russia in 2007–2010 and -2015.

NovNPP-2 is being built on the basis of AEP’s NPP-2006 project – an NPP with WWER-1200 reactors. This is an evolutionary project based on the best solutions of the NPP-92 project. The NPP will be very safe and will meet all the EU standards. The NPP-92 project has been certified by EUR.