Russia to Build 10 New Nuclear Power Generating Units By 2015

                                                                                         

Russia plans to build and put in operation "two gigawatts of nuclear power generation capacity a year" starting from 2012, Petr Shchedrovitskiy, deputy director of the OAO [open joint-stock company] Nuclear Energy Complex, said at the Polar Lights - 2008 international science and innovation conference of students and young specialists of nuclear industry enterprises and higher education institutions on the topic of "Nuclear Future: Technologies, Safety and Ecology".
"Such a pace will allow us to put in operation up to four generating units with the capacity of over 1.1 gigawatts each in 2015-2020 and to increase the share of the nuclear power sector in the [country's] electricity generation to 22-25 per cent by 2030", the representative of the Nuclear Energy Complex said.
At the same time, it is planned to actively build nuclear power plants abroad, he added. By the end of the federal targeted programme on the Development of Russia's Nuclear Energy Complex up to 2015, "it is planned to put in operation 10 new power generating units with the total capacity of 11 gigawatts", and 10 more units will be in various phases of construction, Shchedrovitskiy noted. The total operational capacity of nuclear power plants by 2015 should exceed 33 gigawatts, Shchedrovitskiy said. For this purpose, R674.8bn is allocated from the budget. The total amount of financing of the federal targeted programme is R1,471bn, he added.

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