OREANDA-NEWS. October 19, 2012. GSPI (part of ROSATOM machine engineering division, Atomenergomash) has started the active design phase of the nuclear fuel fabrication plant to be built to Russian technologies in Ukraine.

“The work will be completed on due dates: the plant project documentation should be available by May 2013 and first batch of the project working documentation is to be ready by the end of 2014,” Ilya Vergizayev, Director of GSPI, said. 

The nuclear fuel fabrication facility is designed, considering a substantial difference in the legal regulatory bases and principles of complex civil construction in Russia and Ukraine, while remoteness of the contractors from each other is also taken account of. The Ukrainian facility will be built with state-of-the-art technologies Russia is possessing. According to the ROSATOM’s Production System principles, the GSPI staff counts on minimizing the area, number of servicing personnel and energy savings. 

A decision to set up a joint venture of the State Concern Nuclear Fuel (Ukraine) and Fuel Company of ROSATOM TVEL was made in September 2010. The nuclear facility is built by JSC TVEL and designed by GSPI jointly with UkrNIPIpromtekhnologii.