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Publish date: June 9, 2009
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The company, a subsidiary of AtomEnergoProm (AEP), said that it was informed of the bidding results by Energoatom on June 2nd, World Nuclear News reported.
Volgodonsk units 3 and 4 will be 1000 MWe VVER-1000 units, similar to unit 1, which was completed in 2000, and unit 2, which is set to start up in October. The estimated cost of constructing units 3 and 4, according to Nizhniy Novgorod AtomEnergoProekt, is some 145.7 billion rubles ($4.8 billion) but it is thought the figure does not include the cost of capital, said the agency.
The units were initially set to be completed by 2014 and 2016, respectively, but Rosatom has now brought forward the completion dates to 2013 and 2014.
The environmental statement and construction application for the third and fourth units at Volgodonsk were approved by Rostekhnadzor, the Russian nuclear regulator, in May, WNN reported.
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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