Rosatom signed Tianwan and Bushehr NPPs service contracts
Rosenergoatom Concern - the Electric power division of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation - signed agreements on servicing Iranian Bushehr NPP and Tianwan NPP in China, reported Evgeny Romanov, CEO of the Concern.
- (1888PressRelease) March 05, 2015 - "We signed a long-term five-year service agreement with Iranian nuclear company providing that if Iran develops nuclear power and builds additional units, we will take an active part in the undertaking. The service contract covers Bushehr NPP," said Romanov.
He added that Rosenergoatom signed a service contract on Tianwan NPP with Chinese partners earlier. These contracts provide for power plant maintenance service. Tianwan NPP was built in the People's Republic of China earlier based on the improved Russian project and was recognized by the majority of experts as the world safest nuclear power plant.
Power units 1 and 2 were commissioned in 2007. Iranian Bushehr NPP has no equals in the world. The German concern Kraftwerk Union AG (Siemens/KWU) began the construction of the plant in 1974. In 1980 the German government joined the US sanctions against Iran and the construction was suspended. In August, 1992 the governments of the Russian Federation and Iran concluded the agreement on the NPP construction, and in January, 1995 the contract on completion of unit 1 was signed.
Russian experts succeeded in fitting Russian machinery into the construction part, completed under the German project, and put to good use about 12 thousand tons of German machinery. Unit 1 of Bushehr NPP was connected to the national power system of Iran in September, 2011. Beginning of commercial operation is scheduled for 2015.
In November, 2014 the Russian Federation and Iran signed the contract on construction of two new units of Bushehr NPP based on the Russian technology. Two advanced power units with Generation III+ 1000 MW PWR reactors with all necessary safety systems will be constructed at Bushehr.
For more information please contact:
Dinara Shikhametova
Russian State Nuclear Agency Rosatom
Press Office
Telephone: +7 (495) 956 39 72 ext. 1162
Mobile: +7 (926) 812 02 89
shikhametova ( @ ) m-p dot ru
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