Re: Russia To Build New Nuclear Plant

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

Hi Sandy, Group,

Note that another report said they plan to build 7 and close 9 reactors by
2010. And "by 2000" will have to be even better than Japans record performance
of about 48 months :-)

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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> Nuclear option still viable in some countries
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> 
> Thursday July 30 9:17 PM EDT
> 
> MOSCOW (AP) - Russia plans to build a new nuclear plant and
> two new nuclear reactors by 2000, a spokesman for the
> Atomic Energy Ministry said Thursday.
> 
> Spokesman Georgy Kaurov refused to confirm, however, that the
> government has approved construction of four new nuclear
> plants by 2010 and is drafting plans for another four, as a
> newspaper reported.
> 
> The Moscow Times quoted the Atomic Energy Ministry as saying
> such a plan had been signed by Prime Minister Sergei
> Kiriyenko, and would increase Russia's nuclear energy output by
> one-third.
> 
> Kaurov confirmed that one new nuclear plant would be built at
> Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia. And two new reactors
> would be built at existing plants in Kursk in central Russia and in
> Kalinin north of Moscow.
> 
> Each reactor will cost about $1.5 billion, he said.
> 
> The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine created
> widespread public distrust of nuclear energy and encouraged
> Russia
> to exploit huge natural gas deposits for energy instead.
> 
> But Russian energy experts have argued that new nuclear plants
> are necessary to guarantee the country's energy
> self-sufficiency, and to replace aging reactors that will have to be
> closed in coming years.
> 
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