Resolution No 506-12 of 2 June 2014. On the whole, the state programme highlights the growing significance of the nuclear power industry and nuclear technologies in ensuring the sustained development of Russia. The programme aims to ensure the stable and guaranteed provision of energy to the economy on the basis of the safe use of nuclear energy for sustained economic development and to consolidate the leading positions of Russian companies on the global nuclear technologies and services market while observing the nuclear materials and technologies non-proliferation regime.
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The state programme Development of the Nuclear Power Industry, hereinafter referred to as the state programme, was drafted by the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation for accomplishing large-scale state objectives as regards the consolidation and expansion of the major advantages of the Russian nuclear power industry, the renewal of the science and technological potential of the nuclear weapons sector, the preservation of long-term strategic interests, and the achievement of geopolitical tasks having paramount and decisive significance for the reliable guarantees of Russia’s national security and sovereignty.
The high-tech national nuclear power industry, which is competitive on the global market, largely determines the development of other economic sectors, including power engineering, the construction industry, shipbuilding, transport, the aerospace and radio-electronics industries, information and communications technologies, and healthcare.
Currently, the sector is represented by over 250 companies of various organisational and legal forms and employs about 300,000 skilled experts.
Currently, the Ministry of Defence; the Ministry of Finance; the Ministry of Education and Science; the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief; the Federal Medical Biological Agency; the Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport; the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet); the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor); and the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute are all involved in the state programme.
The state programme aims to accomplish objectives stipulated by Presidential Executive Orders No 596 On Long-Term State Economic Policy, No 597 On Measures to Implement State Social Policy and No 599 On Measures to Implement State Policy in Science and Education of 7 May 2012.
The programme includes five sub-programmes and four federal targeted programmes in line with the principles of targeted programme planning.
The state programme aims to ensure the stable and guaranteed provision of energy resources to the economy on the basis of the safe use of nuclear energy for the sustained economic development of the nuclear power industry and to consolidate the leading positions of Russian companies on the global market of nuclear technologies and services while observing the nuclear materials and technologies non-proliferation regime.
The following objectives shall be accomplished:
· The cost-effective development of the nuclear power generation sector;
· The comprehensive solution of accumulated problems during the implementation of nuclear programmes and efforts to ensure nuclear and radiation safety and security;
· The strengthening of the innovative potential of Russian nuclear technologies and the expansion of the sphere of their use and application;
· The preservation of the nuclear power status of the Russian Federation and the guarantee of its geopolitical interests.
The state programme shall be implemented from 2012 to 2020, and it shall receive 899,723,770,700 roubles’ worth of declassified federal budget allocations.
Russia will continue to expand the rated capacity of nuclear power stations and to build between eight and 11 reactors annually. Moreover, at least 10 new reactors will be put on stream. The total rated capacity of Russia’s operational nuclear power stations will reach 28.1 gigawatts, including the activation of new reactors and the deactivation of reactors with a rated capacity of 10.8 gigawatts. In 2020, nuclear power stations will generate at least 184.3 billion kWt/h of electricity.
Once the No 4 reactor is put on stream at the Beloyarsk nuclear power station, preparations for a closed-loop nuclear fuel cycle will get underway.
In an effort to achieve leading global technological positions, Russia will continue to ensure the innovative development of its nuclear power industry, linked with the development and introduction of new competitive engineering solutions, including the transfer to new nuclear energy technologies, as well as the cost-effective involvement in promising international projects regarding the use of nuclear energy.
At least 20 new-generation nuclear technologies will be developed during the implementation of the state programme.
Revenues from foreign market operations of the nuclear power industry will increase by at least 53 percent, provided that the portfolio of foreign contracts is expanded and implemented on time, with due consideration for the volumes of short-term and mid-term purchases of Russian products and services.
The state programme is expected to produce the following results:
· increasing labour productivity at companies of the nuclear power industry by 58.2 percent;
· increasing the sale of civilian products of the nuclear power industry by 14.9 per cent;
· increasing revenues from foreign market operations of the nuclear power industry by 53 percent.
In an effort to ensure the nuclear and radiation safety and security of nuclear power-generating facilities, Russia will continue to build the required infrastructure components for handling spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. All radioactive waste, as well as sources of ionising radiation that have expended their service life, will be collected, stored or recycled at centralised facilities in line with the state programme.
The creation of a cost-effective structure of the nuclear power industry will ensure the fulfilment of state contracts to develop, upgrade and deliver special-purpose products and military reactors and ensure their reliability and safety, as well as the scrapping and recycling of weapons and military equipment. At the same time, the industry will manufacture more civilian products.
In order to preserve Russia’s strategic and economic interests in the Arctic zone, the Government must guarantee the full operation of the deteriorated nuclear icebreaker fleet. The state programme stipulates construction of three new-generation nuclear icebreakers and the commissioning of two nuclear icebreakers by 2020.
On the whole, the state programme highlights the increasingly greater significance of the nuclear power industry and nuclear technologies in ensuring Russia’s sustained development.