UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2018. Rosatom’s Novouralsk-based member enterprise TVEL/CentroTech presented its new energy storage devices for electric-powered vehicles and the electric lift truck that is currently being used at the plant during Innoprom 2018 International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg. According to the company employees, working on new and better battery types, including those used in the vehicle industry, is one of Rosatom’s important new businesses. TVEL both makes and supplies materials for Li-ion batteries used in the aerospace sector. The vehicles used for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2018. The Russian Government issued a special decree to ensure better counter-terrorist security at nuclear facilities by setting up special-legal-status security zones around the national nuclear power stations, including Beloyarskaya Station in Zarechny, the latter’s press service reports. The zone will be introduced around Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station in August 2018. Its special legal status means an entry permit will be needed to enter or stay within the zone, with a full list of eligibility criteria/grounds for rejection. It also means limits will get

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2018. Tech Director of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) Pavel Zazhigayev and the plant’s Deputy Head for Tech Management Konstantin Shvedov are among Sverdlovsk Region’s twenty-two top engineers this year; they got awarded by First Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexei Orlov at Innoprom 2018 Exhibition. According to the company press service, Pavel Zazhigayev won the Cherepanov Prize for his contribution to the upgrades of NTMK’s blast furnace facilities and for launching green and productivity-boosting technologies at the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers its customers trust management services for their personal investment accounts, the bank’s press service reports. ‘An investor can both make a ROI on their securities and the state-guaranteed 13% tax relief without having to worry about asset management: everything will be seen to by professionals who are well-informed about the market situation,’ the bank explains. All you have to do to get a personal investment account is apply for one on the bank’s website. All paperwork will get done

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2018. An agreement on setting up a management company to coordinate that training of highly skilled ‘white-coated metallurgists’ was signed at the 9th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg on July 12, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The agreement was signed by Sverdlovsk Region’s First Deputy Governor Alexei Orlov, Managing Director of ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant Alexei Dronov, and acting Mayor of Pervouralsk Igor Kabets. The agreement covers a number of specific steps to go through with the plan