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Moscow (AFP) Nov 26, 2010 Russia's Rosatom state nuclear energy enterprise is out of government control and facing a heightened risk of corruption, Transparency International said in a report released Friday. The corruption watchdog called Rosatom "a state within a state" that conducted rigged auctions and overpaid for contracts that could have been struck at a lower and more competitive price. "Rosatom, like the other public firms, is a state within a state and cannot be controlled by the the anti-monopoly service or the audit court," said Elena Panfilova, head of Transparency International Russia. The group said it analysed 200 orders made by Rosatom for construction materials, and Panfilova said that firms often complained they were not allowed to take part in Rosatom tenders. "Rosatom only allows chosen firms to take part in its offers, which are made at high prices in violation of its own norms," added deputy head of Transparency in Russia Ivan Ninenko. Led by former prime minister Viktor Kiriyenko, Rosatom succeeded the Soviet Union's Ministry of Nuclear Energy and Industry in 1992. It was transformed into a state corporation in 2004. Rosatom also controls nuclear weapons companies and oversees the country's construction of the first nuclear power plant in Iran.
earlier related report TVO said in a statement it had been informed by Areva-Siemens that most of the work on the Olkiluoto third generation European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) would be completed in 2012. But it added: "The supplier indicated that its entry into service would take eight months, which means that normal operations would begin in the second half of 2013." The Olkiluoto project, located in southwest Finland, was launched in September 2005 and was to have been completed in April 2009. The date for the end of construction has been delayed five times. Areva in the previous timetable provided TVO mentioned late 2012 as the start-up date.
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