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MAKS-2009 participants are in for busy schedule Wed.
ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow Region, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - A busy schedule
awaits the guests of and participants in the international air show
MAKS-2009 on its second day here on Wednesday.
The day's programme provides for amost 20 news conferences, a number
of symposiums, roundtable meetings and presentations, arranged by
exhibitors from over 30 countries. It is also expected that a number of
agreements will be signed as well.
The 2nd European congress on transport aviation is to begin at the
city's cultural center, an official in the management office of the
airshow has pointed out. Participants in the congress are to discuss the
trend and forecasts for the development of the air transportation market
in the light of economic downturn, the modernisation of the infrastructure
of cargo-carrying air transport.
An international seminar, dedicted to concepts and technologies for
air traffic arrangements, is to open here Wednesday at yet another
discussion floor of the science city.
.Causes of Sayano-Shushenskoye breakdown unknown.
MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Search-and-rescue operations are being
continued at the Sayano-Shushenskoye hydropower station (HPS), where a
major breakdown occurred on August 17.
According to the latest data, twelve people died, 14 were injured,
and 64 are reported missing. Medical and material aid is being given to
the families of those killed and injured in the breakdown. The RusHydro
Company, of which the HPS is part, will pay one million roubles to each
family of the victims.
Preliminary estimates have it that more than 10,000 million roubles
may be needed for the restoration of the Sayano-Shushenskoye HPS. In the
opinion of Boris Bogush, managing director of the RusHydro, it may take
several years to fully restore the HPS, considering the technological
cycle of the manufature of new equipment. The cycle may last up to 20
months. The Company's losses because of the HPS downtime will be 1,500
million roubles a month.
The exact causes of the breakdown have not been ascertained so far. A
water hammer was originally blamed for the breakdown. However that version
was not confirmed, just as a transformer burst that ostesibly caused the
collapse of a turbine-hall wall. The likelihood of a terrorist act has
been already ruled out by the Investigation Committee to the Prosecutor's
Office. RusHydro specialists expressed a supposition that the breakdown
had been caused by a turbine breakdown owing to a factory production
defect. However, Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Emergencies, who visited the
HPS, cautioned against hasty conclusions.
President Dmitry Medevedev has instructed the government to carry out
an inquiry into the causes of breakdowns. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
held a hook-up conference on Monday, as a result of which a government
commission was formed with Vice-Premier Igor Sechin at the head, for the
elimination of the aftermath of the breakdown and restoration of an
uninterrupted power supply in the region.
Full drainage of the turbine hall may take three to eight days, after
which it will be possible to survey in detail the damaged equipment and
reveal causes of the breakdown that entailed a discharge of 40 tonnes of
oil into the Yenissei River. The oil slick spread downstream. The oil
slicks have been localised by booms. Shoigu assures that this would not
affect the quality of drinking water in any way.
The HPS has been brought to a standstill completely. The situation is
under control. There is no danger to people who live along the Yenissei
River downstream.
The capacity of the Sayano-Shushenskoye HPS is 6,500 megawatts. A
245-metre-high dam of arch-and-gravity type serves as the backwater
facility. The area of the turbine hall with ten hydropower units is 1,000
square metres.
Despite the shutdown of the HPS, power engineers have managed to
establish a steady power supply for the populated areas and enterprises of
Siberia. The first funerals of accident victims will be held in
Sayanogorsk on Wednesday. August 19 has been declared a day of mourning in
the Republic of Khakassia.
.Kim Jong Il expresses condolences on death of RK's Kim.
PYONGYANG, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Kim Jong Il, Leader of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has expressed condolences on
the death of former President of South Korea, Kim Dae-Jung.
Kim Jong Il's message of condolence, circulated by the state-run
Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday reads, "His (Kim Dae-jung's)
outstanding services along the road towards achievement of national
reconciliation and the realisation of the striving (of the people) for
reunification will remain with us (for ever)".
Local media report that the DPRK Leader sent the message of
condolence to the Kim Dae-jung family, but they do not specify how the
message was delivered.
Kim Dae-jung, ex-President of South Korea, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner,
died on Tuesday after suffering from a serious illness. In 2000, Kim
Dae-jung had held the first inter-Korean summit with the DPRK Leader in
Pyongyang. The historic meeting resulted in a substantial relaxation of
tension in relations between the two Koreas.
awaits the guests of and participants in the international air show
MAKS-2009 on its second day here on Wednesday.
The day's programme provides for amost 20 news conferences, a number
of symposiums, roundtable meetings and presentations, arranged by
exhibitors from over 30 countries. It is also expected that a number of
agreements will be signed as well.
The 2nd European congress on transport aviation is to begin at the
city's cultural center, an official in the management office of the
airshow has pointed out. Participants in the congress are to discuss the
trend and forecasts for the development of the air transportation market
in the light of economic downturn, the modernisation of the infrastructure
of cargo-carrying air transport.
An international seminar, dedicted to concepts and technologies for
air traffic arrangements, is to open here Wednesday at yet another
discussion floor of the science city.
.Causes of Sayano-Shushenskoye breakdown unknown.
MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Search-and-rescue operations are being
continued at the Sayano-Shushenskoye hydropower station (HPS), where a
major breakdown occurred on August 17.
According to the latest data, twelve people died, 14 were injured,
and 64 are reported missing. Medical and material aid is being given to
the families of those killed and injured in the breakdown. The RusHydro
Company, of which the HPS is part, will pay one million roubles to each
family of the victims.
Preliminary estimates have it that more than 10,000 million roubles
may be needed for the restoration of the Sayano-Shushenskoye HPS. In the
opinion of Boris Bogush, managing director of the RusHydro, it may take
several years to fully restore the HPS, considering the technological
cycle of the manufature of new equipment. The cycle may last up to 20
months. The Company's losses because of the HPS downtime will be 1,500
million roubles a month.
The exact causes of the breakdown have not been ascertained so far. A
water hammer was originally blamed for the breakdown. However that version
was not confirmed, just as a transformer burst that ostesibly caused the
collapse of a turbine-hall wall. The likelihood of a terrorist act has
been already ruled out by the Investigation Committee to the Prosecutor's
Office. RusHydro specialists expressed a supposition that the breakdown
had been caused by a turbine breakdown owing to a factory production
defect. However, Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Emergencies, who visited the
HPS, cautioned against hasty conclusions.
President Dmitry Medevedev has instructed the government to carry out
an inquiry into the causes of breakdowns. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
held a hook-up conference on Monday, as a result of which a government
commission was formed with Vice-Premier Igor Sechin at the head, for the
elimination of the aftermath of the breakdown and restoration of an
uninterrupted power supply in the region.
Full drainage of the turbine hall may take three to eight days, after
which it will be possible to survey in detail the damaged equipment and
reveal causes of the breakdown that entailed a discharge of 40 tonnes of
oil into the Yenissei River. The oil slick spread downstream. The oil
slicks have been localised by booms. Shoigu assures that this would not
affect the quality of drinking water in any way.
The HPS has been brought to a standstill completely. The situation is
under control. There is no danger to people who live along the Yenissei
River downstream.
The capacity of the Sayano-Shushenskoye HPS is 6,500 megawatts. A
245-metre-high dam of arch-and-gravity type serves as the backwater
facility. The area of the turbine hall with ten hydropower units is 1,000
square metres.
Despite the shutdown of the HPS, power engineers have managed to
establish a steady power supply for the populated areas and enterprises of
Siberia. The first funerals of accident victims will be held in
Sayanogorsk on Wednesday. August 19 has been declared a day of mourning in
the Republic of Khakassia.
.Kim Jong Il expresses condolences on death of RK's Kim.
PYONGYANG, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Kim Jong Il, Leader of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has expressed condolences on
the death of former President of South Korea, Kim Dae-Jung.
Kim Jong Il's message of condolence, circulated by the state-run
Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday reads, "His (Kim Dae-jung's)
outstanding services along the road towards achievement of national
reconciliation and the realisation of the striving (of the people) for
reunification will remain with us (for ever)".
Local media report that the DPRK Leader sent the message of
condolence to the Kim Dae-jung family, but they do not specify how the
message was delivered.
Kim Dae-jung, ex-President of South Korea, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner,
died on Tuesday after suffering from a serious illness. In 2000, Kim
Dae-jung had held the first inter-Korean summit with the DPRK Leader in
Pyongyang. The historic meeting resulted in a substantial relaxation of
tension in relations between the two Koreas.
