They in Nizhniy Novgorod are planning to build NPP

22.01.2007 // REGNUM News Agency

Nizhniy Novgorod Government: “If our region is not included in Rosatom’s Road Map, we should stop dreaming about nuclear energy”

Vice Governor of Nizhniy Novgorod region Valery Limarenko believes that, unless the region is included in Rosatom’s Road Map (General Scheme of Generating Capacities Deployment – Rosatom.ru) by Mar 2007, they should give up their dreams about nuclear power engineering in the coming decades.

During a press-conference on Jan 22 Limarenko said that the Nizhniy Novgorod authorities hope that the region will be included in the Road Map.

For this purpose, they are negotiating with Rosatom for building an NPP in the region. Particularly, they are thinking about building the NPP in Urensky district “or some of the neighboring northern districts,” Limarenko said.

Director General of Rosenergoatom Sergey Obozov said during his on-line conference that the Road Map will be ready by Mar 2007.

He said: “In the early 80s there was a project to build a nuclear TPP in Gorky (present-day Nizhniy Novgorod). But after the Chernobyl accident the project was closed – even though almost $1bln had already been invested in it.

“This year Sergey Kiriyenko received a letter from the governor of Nizhniy Novgorod region Valery Shantsev, who said that as of early 2006 the energy shortfall in the region was 2,000 MW and in the coming 5–7 years it may grow for as much.”