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Publish date: July 29, 2008
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"We have prepared a package of proposals for the construction in the Primorye Territory of a nuclear power plant and an aluminum plant with a production capacity of 600,000 metric tons," said Alexei Kalinin, vice director of Atomenergomash, Russia’s nuclear power plant eqipment supplier, the agency reported.
Kalinin, who was addressing the Pacific Economic Congress in Vladivostok, said some of the power plant’s output would power the aluminum facility, and the remainder will be exported to China and North and South Korea.
To implement the project, "the region’s network infrastructure will have to be developed" and "agreements would have to be signed with interested countries," Kalinin was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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