British Broadcasting Corporation, May 27, 2000
Cabinet Approves Nuclear Power Engineering Development Strategy
Moscow, 25th May: A strategy for the development of Russia's nuclear
power engineering up to the year 2030 and for the period up to the year
2050 was approved, as a whole, at today's meeting of the Russian
Federation government, the government information department has told journalists.
A report by the Russian Atomic Energy Ministry set out the fundamental
provisions of the strategy which logically follow from the programme for
the development of nuclear power engineering in 1998-2005 and in the
period up to the year 2010. According to the report, Russia has considerable
resources to develop its nuclear power engineering. In particular, the reserve
of uranium and industrial infrastructure are enough to achieve a four-fold
increase in the output of the capacities currently existing at nuclear power
stations.
The strategy envisages a minimum and a maximum options for the
development of nuclear power engineering. The minimum option
envisages that the output of electricity will reach 235bn kW by the
year 2020, whereas the maximum option provides for a growth in
the rated capacity of up to 60 GW by the year 2030, with the share
of the nuclear power engineering sector increasing to 33 per cent of
the overall electricity output, and the share of electricity generated by
gas-powered stations shrinking to 20 per cent. The main tasks under
the maximum option are to extend the established service life of nuclear
generating sets by 10-20 years and build new nuclear power stations so
as to ensure intensive replacement of gas and fuel oil in the power
engineering sector in Russia's European part.
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