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A contract has been awarded for the supply of a remote handling system for installing, maintaining and recovering components of the international Iter fusion project's Tokamak during its operational life.
Toshiba will supply toroidal field coils for international Iter fusion project and Air Liquide will supply equipment for the machine's cooling under new contracts.
Finnish utility Fortum has awarded a contract to Rolls-Royce to complete the modernization of the instrumentation and control (I&C) systems at its Loviisa nuclear power plant having terminated its contract with Areva-Siemens.
Fennovoima, Rusatom Overseas and Finnish labour organisations have signed a site agreement on human resources deployment at the proposed Hanhikivi construction project.
Russia's state-owned Vnesheconombank is to provide a loanÌýof $500 million overÌýeight years for the financing of Belarus's first nuclear power plant under a newly signed agreement. 48.jpg "LK-60_with_ship_(Rosatomflot)_48")
The Baltiysky Zavod shipyard is to build Russia's next two LK-60 nuclear icebreakers after being the sole company to submit an acceptable tender in an open competition.
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Russian insurance group Sogaz has again won the annual tender to provide property insurance to all of the country's nuclear power plants. It is also to insure the construction of Russia's first floating nuclear power plant.