Russia gets no consensus on path to energy security

Russia’s drive to tackle global energy security produced ideas from nuclear power to clean fuels at a conference on Monday but agreement on one point only: we’re all going to use a lot more energy in the future.

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Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia’s Atomic Energy Agency, which plans to build 40 new nuclear plants in Russia by 2030, told the conference that the nuclear option was unavoidable.

“If the structure (of the world economy) does not change by 2030, we will have to discover seven or eight deposits the size of Saudi Arabia. It’s a similar story with gas. The only other source of hydrocarbons is coal, but there’s not enough.

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