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Publish date: January 13, 2006
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Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for the agency, said Kirienko would visit Iran’s Bushehr power plant, which is currently in the final phase of construction by Russian specialists.
He added that during the agency head’s visit, the two sides will establish a final timetable for assembly operation and discuss preparations for the Bushehr nuclear reactor. The source said Russia hopes the first phase of the Bushehr power plant in southern Iran can be inaugurated by 2006.
The new head of the Russian nuclear agency had announced that timely completion of the power plant was among the priorities of bilateral relations with Iran. Kirienko, who is also the Russian head of the Iran-Russia Joint Economic and Technical Commission, has also expressed his country’s readiness to hold the commission’s next session in Tehran.
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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