About 300 Russian partner companies are involved in each project which is implemented by JSC Atomstroyexport. These are the recognized world leaders in their fields such as Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, OKB Gidropress, Moscow and St.Petersburg Institutes Atomenergoproekt (AEP), Concern Power Machines, JSC Izhora Plants and many others. These companies being the elite of scientific and engineering world help implement projects of NPP construction at the highest level in compliance with all requirements of international standards. 

In his relations with foreign customers Atomstroyexport not only relies on powerful research and technical potential of Russia but closely cooperates with design and industrial organizations of the customer countries involving them in supply of equipment and materials, performance of work at the projects.

Atomstroyexport has large experience in cooperation with leading international manufacturers and developers of equipment such as Siemens, Westinghouse, AREVA NP, ABB Atom and other companies.

FSUE NIPKI Atomenergoproekt (Saint Petersburg) was set up on September 1, 1929 in order to perform design and survey work for hydroelectric power plants and steam generating plants.

Within the period between 1929 and 1991 more than 90 electric power plants (state region power plants, heat electric plants, nuclear power plants and gas turbine stations) were constructed in the USSR from the designs of  the Institute where 439 turbine sets of total capacity 29,72 mln. kW were installed including 55 turbine sets at NPP of total capacity 7,891 mln. kW.

From designs of FSUE SPbAEP 26 electric power plants were constructed in Poland, Vietnam, Cuba, Egypt, North Korea, Algeria, Croatia, Iraq, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland of total capacity 12, 856 mln. kW including 8 nuclear power plants of capacity 7,43 mln. kW.

Starting from designing power units of capacity 3000 kW for steam generating plants and 5000 kW for nuclear power plants nowadays there are steam generating plants with power units of 150, 200, 300 and 500 MW and nuclear power plants with power units of 440, 600 and 1000 MW among the operating power plants designed by the Institute.

Kola NPP and Beloyarsk NPP in Russia, Bohunice NPP and Mochovce NPP in Slovakia, Dukovany NPP and Temelin NPP in Czech Republic, Loviisa NPP in Finland were constructed form the Institute’s designs and commissioned. Two units of Loviisa NPP are among the ten best NPP in the world by their reliable and safe performance.

Nowadays the following power plants of the design of the Institute are under construction in Russia and abroad:

Tianwan NPP in China with VVER-1000 power units;

Bushehr NPP in Iran with VVER-1000 power unit;

CEFR NPP in China with BN-25 power unit.

The design activities for the following power plants are in progress:

- Unit 1 with reactor VVER-1000 for Bushehr NPP in Iran;

- Unit 4 with BN-800 reactor for Beloyarsk NPP;

- LNPP-2 with reactors VVER-1500 for the replacement of Leningrad NPP units;

- modernization and technical re-equipment of operating power units at Kola NPP, Beloyarsk NPP, Kursk NPP, Smolensk NPP, Leningrad NPP;

- reconstruction of heat electric plant – 15 Lenenergo, Norilsk heat electric plant and other steam generating plants in the RF.

The Institute has large experience in selection of points and sites for NPP both in Russia and abroad (in Syria, Libya, Korea, Czech Republic, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, China, Romania, Slovakia and Poland).

Many executives of the Institute were awarded government awards of USSR and Russia for their great contribution to development of domestic production capabilities.

JSC Machine-Building Factory ZiO-Podolsk (JSC ZiO-Podolsk)

began with the construction in Obninsk of the first nuclear power plant in the world in 1952-1954; today it is one of the leading factories of Russia in the area of equipment manufacture for nuclear power engineering.

Currently JSC ZiO-Podolsk and JSC Engineering Company Ziomar (JSC IK Ziomar) are jointly participating in the implementation of long-range projects in Russia and abroad; they possess great manufacturing capacities, unique technologies and powerful potential of design departments.

The companies manufacture and supply a wide range of equipment for nuclear and heat power engineering as well as for other sectors of national economy. Steam generators, moisture separators, reactor pressure vessels, high and low pressure heaters for regeneration of steam- turbine plants, pipelines, tanks, removable heat insulation, evaporators, monitoring systems for reactor pressure vessel metal and other equipment is supplied for NPP. 

Now the equipment for construction of new NPP equipped with VVER-1000 in China (Tianwan NPP), Iran (Bushehr NPP) and India (Kudankulam NPP) is manufactured and supplied.

JSC ZiO-Podolsk and JSC IK Ziomar constantly perform activities for modernization of equipment at the operating NPP in order to enhance its reliability, cost-effectiveness and standard design life. Over the last years the modernization of equipment was carried out at Kozloduy NPP (Bulgaria), Rovno NPP (Ukraine), Armenian NPP (Armenia), Novovoronezh NPP (Russia), Kola NPP (Russia).

The modernization of equipment of Rostov NPP and Beloyarsk NPP in now under way.

FSUE NIPKII Atomenergoproekt (Moscow) is the largest designer of nuclear power plants in Russia. The Institute’s team has been connected with the nuclear power engineering for 50 years already.

The Institute performs design, equipment design and survey activities at all stages of life cycle of nuclear power plants equipped with reactor plants of VVER, RBMK, EGP and KAT type and provides engineering and advisory services for selection of NPP construction sites, for implementation of civil, erection and pre-commissioning activities, for attainment of design capacity, commissioning and decommissioning of NPP units.

The main task of FSUE Atomenergoproekt is provision the effective program for development of nuclear power engineering in Russia with designs.

From the designs of FSUE Atomenergoproekt the NPP in Iran and India are being constructed, a NPP in Bulgaria is under modernization, the engineering and advisory services are provided for a NPP in Czech Republic.

The design of Bushehr NPP Unit 1 in Iran of capacity 1000 MW is the most complicated from the technical and arrangement points of view - it was partially constructed as early as in 1979 from a design of German company Siemens KWU and now is being completed with the use of main equipment of Russian supply integrated with the previously supplied equipment.

With a view to ensure the required rate of development of the nuclear power engineering and to improve technical and economical indices the basic design is now being developed for further serial application of a large capacity power unit with VVER-1500.

The Power Machines company is the leading Russian manufacture and supplier of equipment for hydro, steam, gas turbine and nuclear power plants, for transmission and distribution of power supply.

In 2000 the multiple-discipline manufacturers of power engineering equipment such as Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (LMZ), Elektrosila, Turbine Blades Plant (ZTL), Kaluga Turbine Plant (KTZ) and the sales company Energomashexport (EME) merged into a united structure that enabled to offer to a customer a complete package of services including design of a project, supply and erection of equipment, commissioning, guarantee and post-guarantee service.

The merger made it possible to renovate technological capacities of the plants, to improve marketing strategies and to establish more effective management system. 

In 2003 the JSC I.I.Polzunov Scientific and Development Association on Research and Design of Power Equipment (NPO CKTI) became a part of Power Machines.

In 2004 the plants of the company (ZTL, LMZ and Elektrosila) united in a single legal person by joining JSC Power Machines.

JSC Power Machines is a universal legal successor of all joined companies. All rights, obligations and the assets of the three companies passed on to JSC Power Machines. The joined companies obtained the status of affiliated companies and their regulations were approved by the Board of Directors of JSC Power Machines.

One of the principal tasks of the company in 2006 is, in particular, to ensure on time the successful commissioning of equipment at Tianwan NPP.

Joint Stock Company TVEL was established on September 12, 1996 by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 8, 1996 No. 166 “About improvement of management of nuclear fuel cycle enterprises” by consolidation in its authorized capital of stocks of nuclear fuel cycle enterprises being a federal property.

In the complicated economical conditions in the mid-90s the consolidation of the stocks of the nuclear fuel cycle enterprises into a single structure made it possible not only to keep the potential of the nuclear power industry of the country but also to retain the traditional markets. 

Nowadays 15 enterprises of the nuclear fuel cycle affiliate to TVEL Corporation, among them there are large uranium-mining associations and manufacturers of nuclear fuel and auxiliary infrastructure agencies.

Izhora Plants is one of the oldest industrial plants of Russia, which was established in 1722 by Decree of Peter the Great.

Today Izhora Plants is a modern machine building plant which manufactures equipment for nuclear power engineering, minerals industry, petrochemical industry and metallurgic industry.

The large projects of the last years are the manufacture of equipment for Bushehr NPP (Iran), Tianwan NPP (China), Kudankulam NPP (India). 

Izhora Plants forms a part of the United Machine Building Plants (OMZ) – the largest Russian company in the area of heavy engineering industry. OMZ is specialized in engineering, production, sale and servicing of equipment and machines for nuclear power engineering, mining as well as in production of special steels and provision of industrial services.

Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute was set up by Decree of the President of Russia  in November of 1991 on the basis of the Institute for Nuclear Power named after I.V.Kurchatov established in 1943 (then Laboratory No. 2 of the Academy of Science of USSR) and became the first state-owned national research center of Russia. The center is subordinated directly to the Government of Russia and is not a part of the Russian Academy of Science or branch ministries.

Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute possesses a mighty research and testing base including the largest and most sophisticated facilities (fusion plasma facility, nuclear reactors of different purposes, various types of accelerators, test facilities and other unique research facilities) as well as the design basis and large model shops. All this allows to perform the complete cycle of researches from a scientific idea to development of technology and manufacture of finished product.

Main lines of business:

-  safe development of nuclear power engineering;

-  nuclear physics and elementary-particles physics;

-  controlled nuclear fusion and plasma physics;

-  solid-state physics and superconductivity.

And also:

-  establishment of Moscow International Center of Synchrotron Emission;

-  complex solution of the problems of provision the mankind with energy;

-  microelectronics, technologies and information systems;

-  molecular and chemical physics, physical and in-organic chemistry;

-  safety of population, ecology, medicine;

-  physical protection of nuclear facilities and materials.

Federal State Unitary Enterprise Development Bureau (FSUE OKB Gidropress), awarded the Order of Labour Red Standard and Order of Labor of the CzSSR, was established on January 28, 1946 for development of designs of equipment and systems intended for the facilities of nuclear industry and nuclear power engineering.

OKB Gidropress has grown into the largest design organization of the Russian Federation Ministry for Atomic Energy and is implementing a package of design, design-theoretical and testing and research activities for making of:

-  VVER reactor plants for NPP;

-  Nuclear steam supply systems with liquid metal lead – bismuth coolant;

-  Steam generating and heat exchanging equipment for fast neutrons reactor plants with sodium coolant;

-  Steam separators for NPP with pressure tube reactors of RBMK type.

From the designs of OKB Gidropress 69 reactor plants were constructed, 37 of them were constructed abroad - in Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, etc.

Currently the basic reactor plants of higher safety is developed for large and medium capacity NPP of new generation with VVER  -1500, VVER-1000, VVER-640.

The activities related to extension of the service life of VVER-440 reactor plants of the first generation are important and have prospects for all VVER reactor plants.