The International Dispute Review Board (DRB) refused Finland to file financial claims to the Russian “Rosatom” company in the situation with the Hanhikivi-1 NPP, the contract for the construction of which Helsinki terminated this year. This was reported by the Director General of the Russian atomic state corporation Aleksey Likhachev. The Finnish company, “Fennovoima”, 34
Russia calls on all countries of the world to influence Kiev so that Ukrainian troops stop shelling the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). This was stated to journalists on November 21 by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “This [shelling] cannot but cause our concern, this should cause the IAEA extreme concern,” Peskov said. He stressed that
The integration of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and its personnel into the jurisdiction of the Rosenergoatom (operator of Russian nuclear power plants) concern has begun. Salary and social projects are being introduced for the station staff and residents of Energodar, according to the Head of the City Administration Alexander Volga. “After the arrival
Finnish company Fennovoima filed a lawsuit against Russian Rosatom for almost 2 billion euros for the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant (NPP) and said it was waiting for a counterclaim. The Russian state corporation said that lawsuits have already been filed, for $3 billion. Fennovoima is a nuclear power company established by Russian state’s nuclear
Finnish design company Fennovoima has terminated the contract with Russian Rosatom for the construction of the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant in Finland. The message puts all the blame on RAOS Project (Rosatom’s legal entity in Finland), claiming that “there have been significant and growing delays”. It is also said that “the war in Ukraine has
Specialists of the Russian Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors have successfully completed a large-scale repair and modernization of the VK-50 multipurpose research reactor facility in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region. For the first time in the last 20 years, the installation has supplied 50 MW of electrical power to the network. VK-50 is Russia’s first and only
The Project 11442M heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov set to become the Russian Navy’s most powerful surface ship after its repairs and upgrade at the Sevmash Shipyard, the port city of Severodvinsk on the White Sea. The heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov has been under repairs at the Sevmash Shipyard since 1999. Real
The solemn ceremony of raising the flag of Russia was held on the first serial universal nuclear icebreaker “Siberia” today, on Tuesday, January 25, at the Atomflot berth in Murmansk. According to the Deputy Director of Rosatom Corporation, Vyacheslav Ruksha, it is impossible to imagine the dynamic development of the Arctic without a modern nuclear
Russia knows that the US is somewhat ahead of China in the development of hypersonic weapons, although “nobody makes a fuss about it,” as stated by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, at the “Russia Calling!” investment forum. “We do know that our American partners are slightly ahead in the development of hypersonic weapons after all.
Russia expects that at the end of 18 months of additional study, the participants of the AUKUS security partnership (Australia, the UK, and the US) will come to the conclusion that it is necessary to curtail the implementation of the nuclear submarines project, as stated by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to international
The new universal nuclear icebreaker “Siberia” went on sea trials, according to the press service of the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg where the vessel was built. Первый серийный универсальный атомный ледокол проекта 22220 «Сибирь» покинул достроечную набережную Балтийского завода и взял курс на Финский залив, где приступит к выполнению программы заводских ходовых испытаний pic.twitter.com/oXpC4SFjjU
Scientists of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region) are creating a new projectile designed to effectively combat small-sized drones and aerial bombs. The projectile being developed at the federal nuclear centre contains a body with a set of propellant blocks sequentially located along the axis
The German military attache in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Defence Ministry, where he was handed a note and told that the statements about Russia’s nuclear deterrence by the German Defence Minister provoke tension in Europe. On October 21, in an interview with the Deutschlandfunk radio station, the German Defence Minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, made
