Energy of the future

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The procedure for certification of A-92 reactors, which will be used for Belene NPP, has been successfully completed

At an official ceremony on 24 April 2007 in Moscow the Russian nuclear reactor design A-92, which will be used for Belene NPP, was granted a certificate for compliance with the technical requirements of the European NPP operating utilities to nuclear power plants with new generation light water reactors. Representatives of the Russian companies involved in the A92 development (Atomenergoproekt Moscow. OKB Hydropress and Rosenergoatom) as well as representatives of the EUR organization members were present at the ceremony. The event was attended by the EUR Chairman, Bernard Roger, the Secretary in Charge Pierre Berbey, the head of the A-92 Coordination group Olivier Rousseau and the manager of the NEK enterprise Belene NPP, Yordan Georgiev. The certificate will be handed over to NEK shortly together with the EUR analysis results.

The technical requirements of the European utilities to the nuclear power plants, so called EUR (European Utility Requirements) document, are aimed at harmonizing and stabilizing the conditions, under which nuclear power plants with 3rd Generation light water reactors will be designed and constructed in Europe in the first decades of this century. The expected result is enhancement of both the competitiveness of nuclear power and its public acceptance under the conditions of the unified European energy market.

The EUR member companies promote harmonization of the design basis of the future nuclear power plants not only on European but also on worldwide scale. The EUR have been developed by the major European utility companies operating NPPs in Europe: British Energy, EDF, Fortum, Iberdrola, Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group (NRG), Rosenergoatom, Sogin, Swiss Nuclear, Tractebel, Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO), Vattenfall and VGB PowerTech.

The EUR is composed of the following volumes:

* Volume 1, Rev. C – April 2001 – presenting the main policies and objectives of the EUR organization, stated in the EUR;
* Volume 2, Rev. C – April 2001 – containing all generic requirements and recommendations of the EUR member companies to the Nuclear Island, not related to a specific project/technology;
* Volume 4 – Rev. B – March 2002 – containing the generic conventional island requirements
* Volume 3 – Each chapter of Volume 3 is dedicated to a specific project/technology, subject of interest to the EUR organization companies. It comprises a description of the standard nuclear island, summary of the analysis of the compliance with EUR Volumes 1 and 2 and case by case design based requirements.

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