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Publish date: February 12, 2009
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The chairman of Nizhny Novgorod department of Russian public organisation ”Civil League on Housing, Agrarian Legal Relationship and Territorial Public Self-Management” Oleg Motorev stated this in the end of January.
At the December presentation of the nuclear plant’s project the designers said that the project would cost $7.6 billion. The plant will have four 1,150MW reactors. The 1st unit will be launched in 2016, the 2nd unit — in 2018, the 3rd unit — in 2019, the 4th unit — in 2020. There are two potential sites for the future nuclear power plants: Monakovo and Uren. Nizhniy Novgorod NPP is supposed to cover the shortage of energy in Nizhny Novgorod region. Experts say that by 2020 the region will consume 6.2–6.8GW with the shortage amounting to 4.2GW.
The project will be carried out with the maximum use of the industrial, construction and personnel capacities of the region. On February 14, 2008, Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation named Nizhniy Novgorod Atomenergoproekt as the general designer of the project. During the peak period the project will involve as many as 8,000 people with almost 2,200 people to be employed as operators – mostly graduates of higher professional schools of Russia and Nizhniy Novgorod region and professional development centers of Energoatom Concern.
The general contractor will be selected through an open tender. In 2009 Energoatom Concern will set up a directorate for the construction of Nizhniy Novgorod NPP, which will act on behalf of the owner of the project, rosatom.ru reported.
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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