OREANDA-NEWS. Representatives of Rosenergoatom, Russian NPPs, European Commission and western operators: Iberdrola, PBE, British Energy, Tractebel, TBO took part in the meeting. The host was Sogin, an Italian company that has been cooperating with Rosenergoatom for over a decade.

The key topic of the meeting was Rosenergoatom’s bid for a new program for 2007-2008. The program gives priority to projects where western companies are ahead of Russian ones.

Particularly, Rosenergoatom is interested in getting information that can help it to modernize and enhance the safety of its NPPs, particularly, concerning maintenance, diagnostics and probability safety analysis. The total cost of the bid is 32mln EUR.

The sides have coordinated their actions for promoting the big.

The representatives of the concern presented their western partners with awards and letters of gratitude for their contribution to the TACIS program.