OREANDA-NEWS. On September 01, 2007 the managers of Atomenergoprojet (Nizhniy Novgorod) and Energoproject (Kharkiv) have signed a protocol of intention to develop mutually beneficial cooperation in designing of nuclear power plants, reported the press-centre of Atomenergoproject.

During the talks they considered a draft program of long-term cooperation envisaging joint activities in designing nuclear power plants, exchange of experience in managing projects and cooperation in developing design technologies, particularly, 3D automated design systems.

The sides have also agreed to cooperate on the construction of unit 4 of Kalinin NPP (Udomlia, Tver region). To remind, on July 23 2007 Atomenergoproject and Rosatom concluded a state contract for the construction of unit 4 of Kalinin NPP – a 48bln RUR project to be launched on Dec 1 2011.

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Energoproject was set up over 70 years ago. It is the leading power plant designer in Ukraine: it has designed 88 thermal and 8 nuclear power plants with a total capacity of 52,3mln KWh.

The company has several dozens of software for designing power plants. Particularly, it has launched an AutoCAD 3D system. 100% of the work is done on computer with all the company’s design documents being in electronic version.