16.06.2017 

Within ATOMEXPO-2017 Rosenergoatom will carry out a briefing meeting on the subject of the largest Russian Data Centre construction

Rosenergoatom Concern JSC during its participation in the 9th International Forum “ATOMEXPO-2017” that will take place on 19-21 June in Moscow will carry out the briefing meeting for the media representatives on the topic of the largest Russian Data Processing and Storage Centre (DPC) construction.

The briefing meeting will take place on Tuesday, 20 June at 15:00 at the Rosenergoatom Concern stand (Stand C30).

The Deputy Director General, Economy and Finance Director of Rosenergoatom Concern JSC Sergey Migalin will be the main speaker.

The event participants will discuss the construction of a new Russian 8—megawatt Data Centre as the one of the key tasks implemented by the Concern for the expanse of product lines and approaching new markets.

The construction site of new DPC that may become the largest in the country and one of the largest in Europe is situated in about 200 km north-west from Moscow, near Kalinin NPP (Rosenergoatom Concern subsidiary, town of Udomlya, Tver Oblast).

The DPC will provide services of co-location of server hardware.

The total amount of rack spaces will be 4,800. The amount of the Concern’s rack spaces will be 800. In addition, it is planned to expand the capacity up to 8,000 rack spaces (5 buildings of the DPC).

The completion of the first stage works on the project is scheduled for July, 2017. The project is being implemented in partnership with Rostelekom PJSC.

We welcome the media representatives to participate in the press conference at the address: Moscow, the Gostinniy Dvor exhibition complex (Ilyinka Street, 4), Rosenergoatom Concern Stand No C30.

In order to get to the briefing meeting you need to e-mail at rodionova-ma@rosenergoatom.ru until 11:00 on 16 June, 2017. Or you can visit the Forum at the day of the meeting and register at the entrance at Atomexpo desks when entering (http://2017.atomexpo.ru).

ATOMEXPO International Forum is held by Rosatom State Corporation annually, starting from 2009. The operator of the event is Atomexpo LLC. Over the years the Forum has become the largest platform for international business and exhibition, where the current state of the nuclear industry is discussed, and the trends of its further development are formed. In 2016, more than 5,000 people from 55 countries visited the Forum – a record number in the history of the Forum. The representatives of 650 companies and organizations participated in the business program.

The Rosenergoaton Concern (the power division of the Rosatom State Corporation) includes 10 Russian nuclear power stations bearing the status of the Concern’s affiliate companies, along with the vendors catering for the needs of the generation company. All in all, the 10 nuclear power stations operate 35 power blocks* (*excluding the Novovoronezh NPP’s 6th power block being at the pilot production stage): 18 of them operate VVER reactors (12 VVER-1000 power blocks and 5 VVER-440 power blocks of different modifications); 15 of them with channel reactors (11 power blocks with RMBK-1000 reactors, four power blocks with EGP-6 reactors); and 2 power blocks with fast neutron sodium cooling reactors (BN-600 and BN-800).

At the moment, the Rosenergoatom NPPs account for 18.3% of the whole electricity output in the country.

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