Russia to Expand Atomic Energy Home and Abroad

Russia is planning to expand the share of atomic energy in its total energy consumption from the current 16 percent to up to 24 percent in the coming decade, Minister for Energy and Industry Viktor Khristenko quoted by AP has revealed.

“In the next 13 years within the overall growth of energy consumption in Russia the share of atomic energy will increase from today’s level of 16 percent to reach almost 23 or 24 percent,” Khristenko said in a transcript of a television interview released Saturday by the state-run RIA-Novosti news agency.
Russia will start building new atomic energy reactors next year, with the reactors due to begin operating in 2011 or 2012, Khristenko said, without stating the overall number of reactors to be built.

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