MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax) - The Rosatom state corporation is searching for a consultant to assess possible scenarios of a heavy aircraft falling onto the Akkuyu nuclear power plant premises in Turkey, the corporation's procurement website said.
The Akkuyu NPP Moscow office initiates the assessment.
Consistent with the tender documentation, the victorious consultant will appraise scenarios of a terrorist attack by using an aircraft with a top takeoff weight exceeding 400 tonnes traveling at 150-200 meters per second and a crash of a civilian aircraft of more than 90 tonnes, as well as draw up an engineering estimate of piloted flight at a speed of 150-200 meters per second in the case of a hit to the reactor building.
The contract value is 25.6 million rubles.
The bidding deadline is February 17, the bids will be processed before February 25 and the winner will be named no later than March 4.
A Rosatom spokesman told Interfax the consultations were necessary for independent confirmation that the double protective shell of the reactor building can endure such an extreme impact as a plane crash. Before that Rosatom made a similar analysis for the Bulgarian Belene nuclear power plant.
Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko said during Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's visit to the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in November 2012 that such plants could withstand the crash of a 400-tonne plane. "This is the first project of the kind in the world. It can withstand the crash of a fully loaded Boeing airplane," Kiriyenko said, adding that the plants would be built in the Nizhny Novgorod region and in Turkey, where Russia would erect the Akkuyu NPP.The Akkuyu NPP is a BOO (build-own-operate) project, which makes Russia the owner of a foreign nuclear power plant. Rosatom companies hold a controlling state in Akkuyu NPP: OJSC Rosenergoatom Concern has 92.85%, CJSC Atomstroyexport has 3.47%, OJSC Atomenergoremont has 0.1% and OJSC Atomtekhenergo has 0.1%. Another 3.47% belongs to OJSC Inter RAO UES (MOEX: IRAO). The NPP project value is approximately $20 billion.