Marina Amelina, head of Underwriting Department of Atombroker OJSC

— The forum will be an opportunity to learn all the latest news of the industry

The 2nd international scientific-industrial forum “Fair of Nuclear Power Plant Construction” will be held in Nizhniy Novgorod May 19–22 2009.

The forum will be an opportunity to learn all the latest news of the industry. Lots of foreign partners are expected to attend the forum and we hope that they will share their experience and will add something valuable to what we already know and understand. Exchange of experience is always good.

One of the key topics of the forum will be construction of nuclear power plants. Our risk management system is not very efficient. To be honest, it is not efficient at all. We are taking just the first steps in the field of insurance and are just beginning to understand how we should insure an what even though some 3–4 years ago we knew almost nothing on this matter. Risk management is something much broader than insurance and here we still have lots of questions. So, the experience of our foreign colleagues – how they minimize their risks, how they apply different regulatory and preventive mechanisms — may prove very useful for us.

Today, we are actively integrating into the projects of our western partners. I think that they will help us to learn more and to more effectively promote our products – fuel, construction services, etc.. We do have room for integration and we must meet and discuss possibilities if we really want to achieve something. This is exactly what the forum propagates: development trough cooperation.

Note

The international scientific-industrial forum “Fair of Nuclear Power Plant Construction” was first held in 2008. Over 80 companies and organizations from four foreign countries (Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Ukraine) and 22 regions of the Russian Federation took part in the event. The program of the forum included open tenders and public auctions for the supply of equipment for the 2nd unit of Rostov NPP, the 4th unit of Kalinin NPP and units of Novovoronezh NPP as well as selection of suppliers and sub-contractors for the construction of the 3rd and 4th unit of Rostov NPP.