OREANDA-NEWS. October 18, 2010. Specialists of “AREVA NP” and “EDF”, French companies, held the audit of SCIP OJSC quality management system (is a part of TVEL, Rosatom’s fuel company).

The aim of the audit was to check compliance with the requirements of 9001:2008 ISO international standard. Every three years, since 2004, in accordance with the results of such audits the integrated plant is issued a certificate and gets the status of a supplier approved by these companies. The availability of the certificate issued by a customer proves that SCIP product quality complies with the world standards. The certificate issuing also proves eagerness of French companies to cooperate with SCIP OJSC.

According to the audit results no discrepancies or unconformities have been detected. French auditors distinguished the strong points of the plant quality management system, in particular, availability of a smooth personnel technical training system, which provided different options. The auditors said that not every western company had such a system. In addition, foreign specialists mentioned personnel involvement into quality system improvement – in all subdivisions of SCIP OJSC isotope separation plant, where the audit was held, authority heads and specialists demonstrated a smooth production and secure manufacturing control system.