General contract for China's Tianwan NPS Phase 2.

MOSCOW, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and China on Thursday
confirmed the entering into force of a general contract for the
construction of Power Units 3 and 4 of the Tianwan nuclear power station
(NPS). The general contract was signed in St Petersburg on November 23,
2010.
The entering of the general contract into force is sealed in a
protocol of the Russia-China subcommission on nuclear affairs, signed in
Moscow on Thursday by Sergei Kiriyenko, Director General of the Rosatom
State Corporation, and Chen Qiufa, Head of the Atomic Energy Authority of
the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Earlier the sides had confirmed the finalization of legal procedures
necessary for the general contract to take effect.
Kiriyenko, speaking at the close of the subcommission's work,
emphasized, "Our Chinese partners have decided to carry on cooperation
with Russia in the development of their own atomic industry".
The Rosatom chief said, "Following the developments at Japan's
Fukushima-1 NPS, Russia and China carried out work to reaffirm the safety
of their NPS and decided to go ahead with the development of nuclear power
engineering".
"Apart from building Tianwan NPS Phase 2, we are also to do a large
amount of work in the field of nuclear technologies and energy, and there
are serious prospects for giving greater scope to cooperation in this
respect," Kiriyenko said. "I refer, specifically, to work on a floating
NPS, in which Chinese partners evince great interest," he pointed out..
Under the general contract, a Rosatom executive told Itar-Tass, the
Russian Atomstrojexport Company will build the third and fourth power
units of the Tianwan NPS in accordance with a project analogous to the
first phase. These are two Russia-designed power units with VVER-1000
power reactors with an electric power of 1,060 megawatts each. The
Jiangsu Nuclear Energy Corporation will design and deliver equipment for
the non-nuclear part of the NPS.
The Tianwan NPS Phase 1, consisting of two power units was built by
the Atomstrojexport in 2007. "Those power units were the first
new-generation ones on the international market," the Rosatom executive
pointed out.
According to a statement by the Chinese side, this NPS established a
record among China's NPS in the duration of a nonstop operation during the
first fuel cycle. The two power units of the first phase of the Tianwan
NPS have already generated about 66,000 million kwt-hours of electric
power.
The Rosatom executive points out that this is not the only milestone
event in Sino-Russian cooperation in the atomic sphere this year. An
experimental fast-neutron reactor, built in line with Russian technology
in close interaction between the specialists of the two countries was put
into operation in the PRC in the middle of the year. Besides, the fourth
phase of the gas centrifuge plant, which was also built according to
Russian technology, was commissioned early in July ahead of schedule, the
Rosatom executive pointed out.