OREANDA-NEWS. November 08, 2011. ROSATOM establishes a systems integrator for servicing NPPs located abroad, Rusatom Service.

Founders of the new company which was registered late October 2011 are Rosenergoatom Concern (51%), Atomenergomash (16%), Gidropress (16%) and Atomtekhenergo (16%).

Main areas of activity of Rusatom Service will be maintenance and repair as well as modernization of NPPs. The company also intends to work in the area of technical consulting, training and retraining of the plant personnel.

“At the present time the world NPP servicing market is dynamically developing. According to our estimates, an annual volume of servicing segment of the Russian reactors built abroad only is 1.5 billion euro with a prospect of further growth up to 2.5 billion euro by 2020, Kirill Komarov, Deputy Director General of ROSATOM, says. “ROSATOM companies have accumulated large experience and competences in certain areas of the servicing business. The setting up of Rusatom Service, on the one hand, will allow us offering our traditional foreign customers the innovative solutions in servicing the operating reactors of Russian designs that have already been implemented in Russia. On the other hand, this move will ensure completion of our integrated offer on NPP construction, having given potential clients a possibility of having a complete set of servicing throughout the entire lifecycle of NPPs we build, which is 60 years, and even more, given their decommissioning.”

Rusatom Service will become “a one-stop solution” of ROSATOM as to provision of a full set of services for Russian design NPPs abroad. In future, it is planned to expand the company’s activities to the market of NPPs of western designs.

According to Kirill Komarov, in addition to operations, the new company will develop the innovations area, in particular, research to develop new servicing solutions, including those related to decommissioning of nuclear and radiation hazardous facilities.

Director General of Rusatom Service Mikhail Kontserev emphasized that the company would actively develop the international cooperation to expand its market presence and to provide a full set of services to foreign customers. “We are open to the cooperation with foreign companies, in the first place of the countries where competences in servicing the Russian design reactors have been accumulated. We intend to actively involve national suppliers of services and equipment in our projects,” he added.