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Publish date: May 30, 2003
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The construction of the icebreaker was hindered by the financial problems. The construction of the ninth Russian nuclear icebreaker was launched back in 1989 at the Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg and was due to enter service in 1994. Alexander Rumyantsev, the Russian Nuclear Minister, told ITAR-TASS that the completion schedule was approved and $81.4 million was allocated from the state budget for the construction. The specialists of the Russian Nuclear Ministry will install the reactor core on the icebreaker.
Following Kazakhstan’s country-wide vote in favor of building a nuclear power plant earlier this month, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun a courtship of officialdom in Astana, the country’s capital, in apparent hopes of landing a contract to construct it.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
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