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- Russia likely to help build two more nuclear power units in China: official
Date: 20-Jun-2007 Sources: (People's Daily)
Russia is likely to play a role in the construction of the second phase project of the Tianwan nuclear power station in China, Ivan Kamenskikh, deputy director of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency, said on Tuesday.
Russia is in talks with China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) on the issue, and the final results and design plans will come out at the end of this year, Kamenskikh said in a teleconference.
Construction of the first two 1.06-gigawatt power units supplied by Russia at Tianwan, near the eastern city of Lianyungang, has been completed.
The first unit went into commercial operation on May 17 this year and the second will follow at the end of 2007.
China is expected to build two more power units in Tianwan in the second phase project.
The success of the first phase project has laid a solid foundation for the atomic cooperation of the two countries and we are confident that we will take part in the construction of the second phase project in Tianwan, Kamenskikh said.
The deputy director said Russian atomic scientists had learned lessons from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the nuclear reactors in Tianwan are the most advanced and safest in the world.
Luo Jianxing, an official at CNNC's Moscow office, said China's nuclear development strategy is providing huge opportunities for cooperation between the two countries and China is considering gradually increasing its nuclear cooperation with Russia in the future.
In recent years China has resorted to nuclear energy to help ease a power crunch in the county and alleviate environmental degradation caused by high-polluting coal-fired power plants.
The combined installed power generation capacity of the ten nuclear power units in operation in China currently totals eight gigawatt, less than two percent of the total installed capacity in the country.
The Chinese government plans to increase the installed nuclear power capacity to 40 gigawatt in 2020. The nuclear power units will then each year help cut carbon dioxide emissions by 290 million tons and sulfur dioxide emissions by 960,000 tons.
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