VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Government has set the state corporation Rosatom the task of increasing the proportion of energy generated by nuclear power plants (the target is 25%- 30% by 2030, while currently it is 16%). To achieve this the Government has offered large-scale financial support to the state corporation Rosatom, and in 2006 the Targeted Federal Programme for the Development of the Nuclear Energy Industry in Russia in 2007-2010 and its Prospects till 2015 was adopted. It stipulates the construction of 26 new nuclear power units. Currently there is a possibility that their construction timetable could be altered due to the falling growth rate in energy demand. However all units will be constructed.
The overall volume of funding for the programme through 2015 is nearly 1.5 trillion roubles, of which 660.4 billion come from the federal budget. In addition to money from the state budget, the Energoatom, in its role as the company that commissions their construction, will contribute to the cost, using money generated by energy sales and investments it attracts.
In 2007, the federal budget assigned 18 billion roubles to this end, against 51 billion roubles in 2008. In 2009, after the budget amendments, 73.3 billion roubles will be invested.
Today Energoatom has launched the construction of new power generating units on five sites: in 2009 the second unit at Rostov NPP should come on line, construction work on the fourth unit at Kalinin NPP will continue (it is due to be completed in 2011), the fourth unit at Beloyarsk NPP, using the groundbreaking fast neutron reactor BN-800, and the first two units at Novovoronezh NPP-2 and Leningrad NPP-2, which are due to be completed in 2012 and 2013, respectively.
Work is underway selecting sites for six more nuclear power plants, including: Seversk (Tomsk Region), Yuzhnouralsk (Chelyabinsk Region), Nizhny Novgorod, Central (Kostroma Region), Tver, Baltic (Kaliningrad Region).
General design and project development work has begun on all sites. In addition, the designs of the 3rd and 4th power generation units of Rostov NPP have been developed and approved.
