Floating nuclear heat, power station to cost another 6 bln rubles to complete - Rosenergoatom
MOSCOW. Oct 5 (Interfax) - OJSC Rosenergoatom, the client for the building of a floating nuclear heat and power station, thinks the most the final fitting-out of the facility will cost is 6 billion rubles.
"For us, the pay-off point is in the neighborhood of six billion rubles," Rosenergoatom General Director Yevgeny Romanov told the press on Friday. Rosenergoatom estimates the floating heat and power station's degree of completion at about 60%.
"The money that United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) has seems excessive to us," Romanov said. "Such expenditures will never be recouped," he said, without revealing at how much he estimates the cost of completion to USC.
Romanov said that there will be a meeting in the government next Tuesday on financing the facility's completion.
Within Rosenergoatom, he said, another, alternative, location for the floating facility to be sited is being considered - Pevek. "Pevek could be of interest in that there are problems in the transition of Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant to a non-generating regime, and the [floating plant] can maintain the balance of electricity and heat generation, all the more so in that there are lines that can provide the transmission of electric power to Bilibino Region," he said.
Previously, only one area for the floating plant was supposed -in Kamchatka Territory (Vilyuchinsk).
At the end of May, former USC President Roman Trotsenko announced another figure on how complete the floating nuclear heat and power plant construction work was - just 35%. And two billion rubles of five, paid by client Rosatom, had "gone missing" among former owners of Baltiysky Zavod, which is building the floating facility," Trotsenko said.
The agreement between Baltiysky Zavod and Rosenergoatom for the building of the floating generating nuclear plant was signed back in 2009, when Baltiysky Zavod was controlled by Sergei Pugachev's United Industrial Corporation. The terms of the contract stipulated that delivery of the finished generating unit was to be on May 24, 2012.
After Mezhprombank (which was also part of United Industrial Corporation) went bankrupt, USC bought Baltiysky Zavod.
The price tag on the floating plant is 9.8 billion rubles.
The floating nuclear plant is intended to supply heat and power to isolated consumers in distant regions without centralized power supply, and for whom the long-distance fuel supply is costly. In Russia, this means major population points and ports along the North Sea Route and Far East coast, deposits of recoverable subsoil resources, and military bases. This facility will be the world's first floating nuclear power station and the first non-military project for a small-capacity facility like this one.