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Publish date: November 30, 2005
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The program includes six gas condensate fields on the peninsula, the Yety-Purovskoe, the Vyngayakhinskoe, the Yen-Yakhinskoe, Yamburgskoe and the Zapolyarnoe, BarentsObserver reported.
The Gazprom press office also confirms that the company intends to significantly step up construction and modernization works of pipeline infrastructure leading from Yamal, and first of all the North-European pipeline, the Yamal-Europe line and the SRTO-Torzhok line.
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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