AREVA Signs Safety Instrumentation & Control Cooperation Agreement with Russian Company VNIIAES

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Regulatory News:

AREVA (Paris:CEI) and VNIIAES signed a cooperation agreement in the field of
safety Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems for the first four VVER-type
reactors to be built in Russia as part of the country`s new build fleet program.
The agreement refers to two new 1200 MWe reactors on the Novovoronezh and
Leningrad existing sites, located respectively in the west and south-west of
Russia. In the frame of this agreement, the companies signed a first engineering
contract as well as a letter of intent (LOI) for the delivery of contracts to
come.

This recent agreement is similar to the one signed in 2008 between the two
companies for the modernization of the Kola nuclear power plant, situated in the
far north of Russia using the TELEPERM XS control system.

TELEPERM XS is AREVA`s digital safety I&C system platform based on
state-of-the-art hardware and software standards. The group has extensive
experience in implementing safety I&C systems in VVER-type reactors. References
include the two newly-built VVER reactors in Tianwan, China, the modernization
of the Loviisa plant in Finland, as well as the Belene nuclear power plant
project in Bulgaria.

VNIIAES is a subsidiary of Russian nuclear group Rosatom and the integrator of
the safety I&C systems for Russia`s new-build program.

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