Atomstroyexport (ASE)
JSC () is the
Russian Federation
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's
nuclear power
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equipment and service exporter. It is a fully owned subsidiary of
Rosatom
State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom (commonly referred to as Rosatom rus, Росатом, p=rosˈatəm}), also known as Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, (), or Rosatom State Corporation, is a Russian State corporation (Russia), sta ...
.
Organization
Atomstroyexport, along with
Atomenergoprom
Atomenergoprom (Atomic Energy Power Corporation, AEP, ) is a 100% state-owned holding company that unifies the Russian civil nuclear industry. It is a part of the Rosatom state corporation.
History
Atomenergoprom was created by a Presidential Decr ...
, is part of Rosatom's ''Engineering Division'', which is the corporation's main nuclear power plant (NPP) construction and export business. ASE's flagship product is the
VVER
The water-water energetic reactor (WWER), or VVER (from ) is a series of pressurized water reactor designs originally developed in the Soviet Union, and now Russia, by OKB Gidropress. The idea of such a reactor was proposed at the Kurchatov Instit ...
reactor. Rosatom's NPP operating company is
Rosenergoatom
Rosenergoatom () is the Russian nuclear power station operations subsidiary of Atomenergoprom.
Ownership and formation
The company was established on 7 September 1992 in Presidential decree 1055: "On operating organization of nuclear power plan ...
. In addition, ASE is closely associated with
Atomenergomash
Atomenergomash JSC (AEM Group) (, AEM Holding company) is a Russian power engineering company, a supplier of products for nuclear and thermal power plants, natural gas and petrochemical industry, shipbuilding, and special steel markets. It is the ...
, Rosatom's manufacturer of NPP equipment.
Alexander Lokshin, former CEO of Rosenergoatom, now the ''First Deputy CEO for Operations Management'' at Rosatom, is associated with ASE Group of Companies.
History
The first research reactor was built and launched in China, at the "Institute of Nuclear Physics," in 1958. After two years in the city of
Lanzhou
Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of Gansu province in northwestern China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. His ...
to her it was erected a "Physical Institute". In it was an accelerator of the brand "U-150", specially built at the
Izhorskiye Zavody
Izhorskiye Zavody or Izhora Plants () is a Russian machine building joint stock company (OAO) belonging to the OMZ Group. It operates a major manufacturing plant in Kolpino, Saint Petersburg.
Operations
The company is primarily a heavy ind ...
for the Chinese (150 - is the diameter of the magnet poles in cm), the
cyclotron
A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932. Lawrence, Ernest O. ''Method and apparatus for the acceleration of ions'', filed: Januar ...
, the deuteron has the energy of 18 MeV. The following year, the organization in the city of
Řež
Řež () is a village and administrative part of Husinec (Prague-East District), Husinec in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Řež is the site of a nuclear physics, nuclear research centre, where the first nuclear reactor in the ...
(Czechoslovakia, now
Czech Republic
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) is building "VVR-S", a research reactor (4 MW).
Recent period
The Russian nuclear vendor is building the first reactor power unit in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
ian
Bushehr nuclear power plant
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant () is a nuclear power plant in Iran south of Tehran ( southeast of the city of Bushehr), between the fishing villages of Halileh and Bandargeh along the Persian Gulf.
Construction of the plant was started in 1 ...
located southwest of
Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...
under a US$1 billion contract signed in 1995. In 2007, Atomstroyexport signed a
memorandum of understanding with Ciner Insaat Ticaret ve Sanayi to promote its VVER-design
pressurized water reactor
A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with notable exceptions being the UK, Japan, India and Canada).
In a PWR, water is used both as ...
s in
Turkey
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. In
Bangladesh
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, proposals have been prepared to resurrect the potential Rooppur nuclear power plant. In the UK, Atomstroyexport would consider partnering with a Western manufacturer for a new UK builder.
[
] In Morocco, Atomstroyexport is considering participation in construction of a nuclear power plant at
Sidi Boulbra.
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]
In late October 2006, the offer of Atomstroyexport for construction of the
Belene Nuclear Power Plant
The Belene Nuclear Power Plant () is an abandoned nuclear power plant 3 km from Belene and 11 km from Svishtov in Pleven Province, northern Bulgaria, on the right bank of the Danube River. It was intended to substitute four VVER-440 V23 ...
in Bulgaria, using third-generation VVER-1000/V-446B reactors, was approved. The first unit would be in operation by 2013 and the second a year later.
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]
On 28 March 2012 the Bulgarian government announced the withdrawal from the Belene project due to a negative report regarding the viability of the future power plant and the lack of another major European or American investor.
Between 1999 and 2007, Atomstroyexport constructed the
Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant
Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant (NPP) on the coast of the Yellow Sea, approximately 30 kilometers east of downtown Lianyungang, Jiangsu
Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in ...
in China, which consists of two VVER reactors with 1,060 MW each, and has signed an agreement for construction of units 3 and 4. Unit 5 to 8 are firmly planned.
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]
On 19 February 2008, Atomstroyexport signed a cooperation agreement with
Technopromexport, a Russian exporter of other large-scale power generation types, on the construction and management of power projects in Russia and abroad.
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]
On 14 December 2009, Atomstroyexport bought
Nukem Technologies
NUKEM Technologies GmbH(branded as NUKEM)is a German nuclear engineering company based in Karlstein am Main, with a history dating back to 1960. The company specializes in nuclear decommissioning, radioactive waste management, spent fuel hand ...
for 23.5 million Euros, adding nuclear power plant decommissioning, waste management and engineering services to its portfolio.
Atomstroyexport has supplied the technology, the equipment, the components and the individual systems towards building six
VVER-1000
The water-water energetic reactor (WWER), or VVER (from ) is a series of pressurized water reactor designs originally developed in the Soviet Union, and now Russia, by OKB Gidropress. The idea of such a reactor was proposed at the Kurchatov Instit ...
reactors for the
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (or Kudankulam NPP or KKNPP) is the largest nuclear power station in India, situated in Kudankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Construction on the plant began on 31 Ma ...
in India built in collaboration with
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is an Indian public sector undertaking based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is wholly owned by the Government of India and is responsible for the generation of electricity from nuclear power. N ...
(NPCIL), with an installed capacity of 6,000 MW of electricity.
References
External links
Official website of Atomstroyexport
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Nuclear technology companies of Russia
Technology companies established in 1973
Companies of the Soviet Union
Rosatom
Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union
Companies based in Moscow
Ministry of Foreign Trade (Soviet Union)
1973 establishments in Russia