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Publish date: March 30, 2007
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Rosatom plans to launch two new blocks of the NPP Seversk in the Tomsk Region in 2017 and 2019. Kamenskikh pointed out that construction works cannot start unless two major questions have been solved: the question of financing and whether or not an additional power supply system will be built to supply the Siberian market. Building a new power supply system would cost about $140m.
According to Vladimir Korotkevich, CEO of Siberian Chemical Combine, the launch of the new NPP had originally been planned for 2024. Considering that the new blocks are now going to be launched already in 2015, construction works are likely to start in 2008, reported the Russian newspaper Krasnoe Znamya.
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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