OREANDA-NEWS. August 12, 2009. The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service of Russia decided to allow Atomenergomash OJSC to buy 100% voting shares of the Central Design Bureau of Machine Building, reported the press-centre of Minatom. 

The Central Design Bureau of Machine Building was set up in 1945 as the Experimental Design Bureau of the Kirov Plant and specializes in production of equipment for the nuclear industry. During the Soviet times the Bureau, jointly with the Experimental Design Bureau of Gorky Machine Building Plant, designed 16 frames of diffusion machines for national nuclear companies.

In the 1950s the Bureau developed a gas centrifuge thereby initiating the industry’s transition to centrifuge technology. Six generations of gas centrifuges have been developed so far. The Bureau is also one of Russia’s leading producers of pumps for nuclear power plants, nuclear submarines and icebreakers. It is also the designer of Chelnok system for liquid-phase processing of uranium hexafluoride. This project allowed Russia to export enriched uranium to foreign partners.

The Bureau has designed equipment for RT-1, Russia’s first spent nuclear fuel regeneration plant; for spacecraft disassembly chambers; for the preparation of spent nuclear fuel for long-term dry storage, particularly, for Leningrad, Kursk and Smolensk NPPs and the Mining Chemical Combine.
 
Atomenergomash manufactures and supplies equipment for nuclear power plants. The company owns stakes in Alstom-Atomenergomash, ZiO-Podolsk, ZIOMAR, Ganz Energetika Kft. (Hungary), "Аrako spol s.p.o." (the Czech Republic), Sverd OJSC.