OREANDA-NEWS. October 9, 2012. Rusatom Overseas organized a workshop for the specialists of an Argentinean company, which will be the client for an NPP construction in this country. In the course of this event all the aspects of ROSATOM’s integrated offer in NPPs construction abroad were introduced.

About 50 representatives of "Nucleoelectrica Argentina SA" participated in the event, which took place at Atucha NPP.
At the workshop the Russian party highlighted that ROSATOM’s integrated offer includes not only safe, effective, and referential technology of an NPP with VVER reactor, but also solutions that envisage the maximum involvement of the local industry, options in financing and project management, as well as HR development programs.

Mikhail Bykov, representative of OKB Gidropress (a ROSATOM subsidiary), made a report on the evolution of VVER technology in terms of safety systems development. In his presentation he focused on the safety systems of an NPP Unit and emphasized the conformity of modern VVER technology to the "post-Fukuschima" safety requirements.

Elena Miryushenko, Rusatom Overseas representative, presented ROSATOM's typical scheme of localization of NPP construction projects implemented outside Russia.

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Argentina started development of nuclear energy in 1950, when National Atomic Energy Commission, CNEA, was created. In 1964, feasibility study for the first unit was started. In 1974, Atucha1 with PHWR design entered commercial operation. The Embalse plant with CANDU-6 reactor entered commercial operation in 1984. Construction of Atucha2 was started in 1981.
In August 2006, Argentina announced plans for development of the country’s nuclear power sector. The plans involved completion of Atucha 2, extending the operating terms of Atucha 1 and Embalse, and also beginning of construction of Atucha 3.
In May 2011 a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy was signed between ROSATOM and Ministry of Federal Planning and Public Utilities of Argentina. This MoU stipulates that ROSATOM successfully passed the pre-qualification as a possible supplier of the fourth Argentinean NPP.