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DP World wants to operate ports along Russia’s northern sea route - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-forum-dp-wrld-idUSL8N23E3SZ

DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, wants to run ports that Russia plans to build along the northern sea route in the Arctic to shorten shipping times between the east and west, its chief executive told Reuters.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made developing the northern sea route (NSR) - which requires new ports and heavy icebreakers to move goods - one of his priorities, with supporters dubbing the route the northern Suez Canal.

Dubai government-controlled DP World operates 78 marine and inland terminals, supported by more than 50 related businesses in over 40 countries.

The firm agreed this week with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom and Nornickel, one of the world’s top nickel and palladium producers, a joint project to pursue the integrated development of the NSR.

The deal is not legally binding and the parties will first study options for developing the route and may set up a joint venture later to develop freight transit via the NSR.
[…]
Bin Sulayem said it was to early to talk of possible stakes in potential future joint ventures. “The (Russian) government will decide which land to give us and we will prepare the projects, we will attract the customers, we will work with industries how to attract, to produce something that we know.”

“We are at early stages (to talk about any stakes), we will need to sit with the partners and see, but we will always abide by rules which are laid (by Russia).”

#Arctique #Route_maritime_du_Nord
#Passage_du_Nord-Est

« Titanic nucléaire » : la première centrale flottante a quitté la Russie
▻https://www.ouest-france.fr/environnement/nucleaire/titanic-nucleaire-la-premiere-centrale-flottante-quitte-la-russie-57313

https://media.ouest-france.fr/v1/pictures/1d68737802866e565bd70d8330da8853-titanic-nucleaire-la-premiere-centrale-flottante-quitte-la-russie.jpg

La première centrale nucléaire flottante du monde, exploitée par le géant russe Rosatom, a quitté le port de Saint-Pétersbourg, samedi. Sous l’œil des écologistes inquiets pour l’Arctique.

Elle s’appelle L’Akademik Lomonosov et c’est la première centrale nucléaire flottante du monde. Cette innovation exploitée par le géant Rosatom, contrôlé par l’État russe, a quitté le port de Saint-Péterbourg, samedi.

Direction Mourmansk, où elle sera chargée en combustible et testée. En 2019, elle devrait être remorquée jusqu’à Pevek son emplacement définitif, situé à 5 000 km de là, pas très loin de l’Alaska.

Les riverains de la mer Baltique ont vu partir cette usine avec soulagement. Greenpeace l’a baptisée « Titanic nucléaire » ; la Norvège s’y oppose depuis 2013. En juillet, elle a obtenu que les deux réacteurs nucléaires KLT-40 ne soient alimentés en uranium qu’après avoir franchi ses 83 000 km de côtes.

À Saint-Péterbourg, ce fut aussi le soulagement pour les cinq millions d’habitants, dont beaucoup ont signé la pétition relayée par l’écologiste Alexander Nikitin, de la fondation Bellona. Cet ancien officier russe est aussi inquiet pour l’environnement fragile de l’Arctique.

Il rappelle que les fonds marins de la baie de Chazhma, près de Vladivostok, dans le Pacifique, sont toujours contaminés après le ravitaillement d’un sous-marin nucléaire qui a mal tourné, en 1985 : « L’explosion a aussi tué dix personnes et n’a été révélée qu’en 1993 ».
 
Alexei Likhachev, le patron de Rosatom, se veut rassurant. On n’est plus à l’époque soviétique. Il ne faut pas faire fuir la quinzaine de pays déjà intéressés, tels la Chine, l’Algérie, l’Indonésie…
« Ces centrales flottantes sont dangereuses, insiste Jan Haverkamp, expert nucléaire de Greenpeace pour l’Europe centrale et orientale. Elles ont une coque à fond plat, pas de propulsion et seront basées dans des eaux peu profondes, ce qui les rend particulièrement vulnérables aux tsunamis et aux cyclones. »

#Chazhma lire #Tchajma …

Russia issues Hinkley nuclear warning

▻http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=d8e675e8c0&e=08052803c8

Assez bizarre, mais bon;

Russia issues Hinkley
nuclear warning

EXCLUSIVE: State-owned Russian nuclear corporation says the industry’s credibility is at risk if building the new UK power plant is delayed or runs over budget.

By Terry Macalister

LONDON, 19 September, 2016 – A major nuclear developer has warned the French energy giant EDF that it must deliver the Hinkley Point project in the UK on time and on budget or risk damaging the credibility of the wider industry.

In an exclusive interview with Climate News Network, Kirill Komarov, first deputy chief executive of Russian state-owned corporation Rosatom, expressed fears that problems at other EDF schemes − such as Flamanville in France and Olkiluoto in Finland − could be repeated.

#nucléaire

La centrale nucléaire Akkuyu, compromise ?
▻http://www.kedistan.net/2015/12/10/nucleaire-turquie-gel-projet-akkuyu

Selon l’agence Reuters, des « autorités bien placées » ont exprimé leur doutes sur la continuité du projet. Ils ont confirmé l’arrêt total des travaux, tout en soulignant que l’entreprise Rosatom a investi jusqu’aujourd’hui environ 3,5 milliards de dollars et que le contrat comporte de très lourds engagements d’indemnités en cas d’annulation unilatérale. Pour l’instant la Russie ne se prononce pas en ce sens. En tous cas, il deviendrait impossible de finaliser le projet en 2022 comme prévu.

#Nucléaire #Turquie #Russie

Senior manager at Akkuyu nuclear project resigns, says Turkey shouldn’t work with Russian company
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/senior-manager-at-akkuyu-nuclear-project-resigns-says-turkey-shou

A senior manager at Turkey’s first nuclear power plant in the Mediterranean province of Mersin has resigned from his post, claiming that even though Turkey needs nuclear technology, it should not be done with contracted Russian company Rosatom.

Faruk Uzel, who worked as the Public Diplomacy and Government Relations Manager for the Akkuyu Nuclear Joint Stock Company for four years, resigned from the company, saying the project should not proceed with Russian state-owned Rosatom, as they were unprofessional.

“This project needs to be done but not with these people,” said Uzel to a group of journalists at a press conference he organized at the Association of Journalists’ Mersin branch on Sept. 3.

“They [the state] should give up this project which is amateur, novice and full of technical faults. They should conduct it with more professional partners,” Uzel added.

Speaking at the conference, Uzel asked how a company, which could not isolate underground water from an information center built one-meter below ground level, could build a nuclear power plant 12-meters below ground level and near the sea.

Uzel asked if it was true that Rosatom did not think to consider the shore edge line while placing reactors and thus placed one below the shore line. He added that because of this fault, the company could not continue the project and is currently waiting for a change in law to proceed.

Commenting on why the Russian company did not want to be transparent about radiation tracking and measurement, Uzel asked why they had rejected the requests of Mersin University and the representatives of the Mersin citizens about the issue.

Uzel said he decided to resign because he voiced the great risks of the project built by the Russian company held.

“I declare that, while supporting my country’s efforts to construct a nuclear power plant and possess this technology, I have resigned from the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant Project as a result of mentioning the observation that the nuclear power plant, which the Russian company’s activities and mentality will construct, is a great risk to my country and nation,” read the message Uzel sent journalists on Sept. 1.

#électricité #nucléaire #Turquie #Russie

Finland signs nuclear construction deal with Russian firm - Yahoo News
▻http://news.yahoo.com/finland-signs-nuclear-construction-deal-russian-firm-132916412--finance.
▻http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/6rik6AZwuPGCiADf_9dhPQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT03NTt3PTYwMA--

Finnish utility Fennovoima said Thursday it has awarded the main contract for constructing a nuclear plant in Finland to the Russian company Titan-2.

Fennovoima said it has completed the approval process for the company, which was signed up for the deal in January by Fennovoima’s partner in the project, Rusatom Overseas — a subsidiary of Russian state-owned nuclear company Rosatom.

Rosatom owns 34 percent of the Hanhikivi 1 project, which was endorsed by lawmakers last year, provided domestic investors increase their current 55-percent stake to at least 60 percent. Fennovoima has said it is confident investors will come forward in time.

European sanctions against Moscow for backing Ukrainian rebels does not apply to Finland’s cooperation with Rosatom, whose involvement in the 1,200-megawatt plant was approved in early 2013 before the EU measures were put in place.

Fennovoima said Titan-2 will build the nuclear and turbine island and provide installations, materials and equipment for Finland’s sixth nuclear reactor, which is expected to be operational by 2024.

No construction start date has been given although Fennovoima says on-site preparations will be ready by year-end, including fencing off the area. It expects to complete approvals next month for three other key suppliers— all subsidiaries of Rosatom.

Finland, which provides some 30 percent of its electricity through atomic energy, has been building a fifth reactor since 2005, but that project has been plagued by delays, partly caused by poor materials. The 1,600-megawatt European Pressurized Reactor, being constructed by French-German engineering conglomerate Areva-Siemens, was meant to provide electricity by 2009 but is not expected to go online until 2018.

#EPR (ou pas…) #Rosatom

Kazakhstan’s nuclear power plans - the mysteries only deepen - The Ecologist
▻http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2522060/kazakhstans_nuclear_power_plans_the_mysteries_only_deepen.html

Russia has announced that it will build the first thermal nuclear power station in Kazakhstan, the world’s largest uranium producer, writes Komila Nabiyeva. But where in that vast country will it be located? Who will own and operate it? How many reactors are planned? Who will get the power? And will it ever actually happen?

As the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, signed the recent deal forming the Eurasian Economic Union with his counterparts from Belarus and Kazakhstan in the Kazakh capital city of Astana, one controversial agreement went relatively unnoticed.

On the same day, May 29, the Russian state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Kazakh national atomic company, Kazatomprom, on constructing the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan.

The MoU lays out intentions of both parties on design, construction, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of a nuclear power plant with water-water energy reactors (VVER) - that is, water-cooled water-moderated reactors - with an installed capacity of 300 to 1,200 MW, according to the Rosatom press release.

But other vital details about where the plant will be, and who will own and operate it, remain a mystery. In media interviews, Rosatom said the plant will be constructed in Kurchatov, a city in north-east Kazakhstan, near the former Soviet Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

@simplicissimus @reka #nucléaire #asie_centrale #Kazkhstan

Iran et Russie main dans la main pour construire deux centrales nucléaires
▻http://www.latribune.fr/actualites/economie/international/20140623trib000836439/iran-et-russie-main-dans-la-main-pour-construire-deux-centrales-nucleaires

Téhéran et Moscou sont sur le point de signer un accord pour la construction de deux centrales nucléaires en Iran, a annoncé le porte-parole de l’Organisation iranienne de l’énergie atomique (OIEA), Behrouz Kamalvandi, cité lundi par l’agence Irna.

Le vice-président de la société russe Rosatom, Nicolay Spassky, est arrivé à Téhéran pour deux jours de négociations avec les responsables nucléaires iraniens, a rapporté l’agence officielle Irna. En mars dernier, Behrouz Kamalvandi avait annoncé un « accord préliminaire » avec la Russie pour la construction de deux centrales.

Ces deux centrales seront installées à Bouchehr, sur la côte du Golfe, près de la première centrale de 1.000 mégawatts déjà en partie construite par Moscou et qui a été officiellement remise aux Iraniens en septembre 2013.

 
L’Iran veut construire à terme 20 centrales nucléaires de 1.000 mégawatts, dont quatre à Bouchehr, afin de diversifier ses sources d’énergie pour être moins dépendant du pétrole et du gaz pour sa consommation intérieure.

U.S. moves in on Russia’s nuclear energy turf in Ukraine
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/us-moves-in-on-russias-nuclear-energy-turf-in-ukraine-345793.html

Ukraine’s energy dependence on Russia subsided yet again this month when state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom on April 11 concluded a deal with America’s Westinghouse to supply fuel rods until 2020. The agreement came more than two weeks before Ukraine signed a memorandum with Slovakia for the supply of up to 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year to replace Russian blue fuel imports. The deal also comes on the heels of a scandal involving dented rods, competing interests and conflicting evidence.

L’accord a été signé le 11/04, le lendemain de son annonce comme probable ►http://seenthis.net/messages/246030 (avec les réserves de Rosatom)
L’accord sur le gaz avec la Slovaquie, c’était il y a 3 jours ►http://seenthis.net/messages/252000

Les crayons de combustible se déformaient dans les assemblages entrainant des risques pour . Pour Westinghouse, c’étaient les russes, pour TVEL les états-uniens. En fait, les deux !…

According to Forbes, in April 2012, after all rods were removed from an SUNPP reactor following a scheduled period of use, plant technicians discovered that in fact both the American and Russian rods had suffered dents and scratches to their containment structures, which threatened the integrity of the radioactive material inside. Nevertheless, the chief inspector of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate Michael Gashev recommended to an Energoatom commission that it only forbid the use of American rods.

L’accord prévoit un test de validation avant extension de l’utilisation du combustible provenant de Westinghouse.

As per the amended contract, in December 2014-January 2015 during scheduled maintenance the first batch of the modified rods will be loaded into the third unit of the SUNPP for a test period to collect data for approval by the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate. If all goes well, the rods can then enter regular usage.

Néanmoins, la coopération avec la Russie dans le domaine de l’énergie nucléaire se poursuit. Et Rosatom espère participer à la privatisation de Turboatom reportée pour les raisons que l’on sait…

Furthermore, Russia’s nuclear energy giant Rosatom is interested in privatizing Turboatom, a highly profitable Kharkiv-based producer of turbines for nuclear power plants. Privatization was expected to happen this year, though it was postponed due to political instability in the country and thus far remains unclear.