OREANDA-NEWS. October 3, 2007. In Jan-June 2007 Techsnabexport (Tenex) made contracts worth a total of $1.2bln, the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko said during a press-conference for regional mass media. 

He said that one more world leader TVEL was also increasing the number of its fuel export contracts: “This year TVEL has increased its incomes by 33% — mostly due to exports.”

Kiriyenko said that abroad Russia could hope for as many contracts as at home: “We believe that in the coming 20–30 years we can build almost as many NPPs abroad as we are planning to build at home.”

Under the federal target program for the development of the nuclear power industry, Russia is planning to build no less than 26 nuclear power units — 1000 MW each. “It is profitable for us to build NPPs abroad: our costs abroad are higher than at home because they have a different electricity price,” Kiriyenko said. He noted that the newly established Atomenergoprom holding would seek to enlarge its presence on the world nuclear market in all possible directions. “We are going to expand in all directions without exception. The world nuclear market is a global rather than national market. That’s why we will compete for the global market rather than for any specific country,” Kiriyenko said.