1 Billion Czech Crowns for Skoda JS to Take Care of Nuclear Power Plants
Date: 3. 2. 2009
Source: Mladá fronta Dnes
Plzen - Skoda JS, former SKODA Nuclear Engineering, has signed a CZK 1 billion contract for maintenance of Dukovany and Temelin nuclear power plants.
The company is going to ensure complex service of reactor halls of all six units at both nuclear power plants. The contract will provide the company with annual revenues amounting to about CZK 400 million.
The company signed a frame contract with CEZ with an option until at least 2015. Each year it shall be specified by means of particular contracts. For this year the contract has already been awarded, whereas the total value of supplies for both nuclear power plants will exceed CZK 400 million. Work at Dukovany nuclear power plant has already been initiated.
"It is a breakthrough contract thanks to which we have entered complex service. By this CEZ has recognized us as a highly reliable partner for its provision,” Mr. Fiala said.
Approximately thirty people will permanently operate directly at the plants. In past SKODA JS experts have only been invited fitfully to perform certain operations, for instance tests of pressure vessels.
Several Czech companies had entered the tender for provision of complex service of Czech power plants. However SKODA JS was the only one to qualify for the final selection procedure.
The reactor hall is a crucial part of a nuclear power plant, or more precisely the primary circuit, reactor and other systems located in the reactor hall. The activities of SKODA JS will reduce costs of CEZ, increase equipment maintenance efficiency and improve work organization. “For instance it will shorten duration of outages,” Mr. Fiala said.
For the last year revenues in the amount of CZK 2.6 billion and gross profit of CZK 157 million had been prescribed to SKODA JS by its owner, Russian OMZ Group. Thus both indicators are to be almost identical with the ones of 2007. About 55 % of the Company’s performance is formed by investment engineering, 30% by manufacture and the rest is formed by nuclear equipment service.