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Publish date: July 30, 2008
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Belarus plans to build a nuclear power plant with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts, with the first unit to come online in 2016, and the second in 2018. The plant is expected to have so-called Generation III water-moderated reactors.
Belarus invited Rosatom, the French-German firm Areva, and the US.-Japanese joint venture Westinghouse-Toshiba, the three main producers of nuclear equipment in the world, to participate in the tender, the agency said.
"Rosatom has officially confirmed its intention to participate," the Belarusian energy ministry said, adding that Areva had also consented to take part in the tender.
The ministry said it had not received an official response from Westinghouse.
"We have sent an offer to that company as well. We are still waiting. The deadline will expire on August 1st," the ministry said.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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