OREANDA-NEWS. June 22, 2015. During the Power-Gen Europe conference held in Amsterdam in June, several international experts said that the Russian proposal for constructing modern NPPs enjoyed the highest demand on the European market, which is illustrated by the choices made by Finland, Hungary and Turkey. 

The panel discussion identified the issue of optimal financial solutions for constructing NPPs as one of the key challenges the nuclear power industry faces in the world today. The experts outlined Russia’s approach to financing, which was presented by Jukka Laaksonen, an advisor to General Director at JSC Rusatom Overseas.  “In its foreign projects Rosatom uses different financing instruments, from providing an interstate credit facility for constructing an NPP, like in Hungary and Belarus, to buying ownership in the companies responsible for constructing and operating a new NPP, like in Turkey and Finland. Searching for an optimal financial solution for constructing an NPP is one of the components of the integrated proposal from the Rosatom State Corporation on foreign markets,” said the speaker. 

As part of the New NPP Technologies session, Jukka Laaksonen presented a modern Russian project with the VVER reactor of the 3+ generation. He stressed that the project met the latest, including the post-Fukushima safety requirements,  had a unique combination of passive and active safety systems. According to him, Rosatom’s technology relied on the time-tested solutions that had proven their reliability for more than 1,300 reactor years of trouble-free operation at the VVER reactors. 

Experts from the UK, UAE, Turkey, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, China and Russia took part in the conference.