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Russian-Built Chinese Reactor to Go into Commercial Use in October

Posted on: Saturday, 18 March 2006, 12:00 CST

Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS

Moscow, 18 March: The first power set of the Tianwan nuclear power station in China will go into commercial operation in October 2006, ITAR-TASS was told today at the Russian company Atomstroyeksport.

"In October 2006 we are planning to put the nuclear power plant into commercial operation," the agency was told. "The power set could be connected to the Chinese power grid even earlier - it had originally been planned to time it to coincide with Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China on 21-22 March." [Passage omitted]

[Another ITAR-TASS report quoted the head of the Chinese state atomic energy committee as telling the visiting head of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, Sergey Kiriyenko, that he welcomed Putin's proposal to create a network of international centres for the provision of nuclear fuel cycle services on a non- discriminatory basis and under the auspices of the IAEA. "This will help develop the energy industry and maintain the nuclear weapons nonproliferation regime," he said.

Kiriyenko noted the prospects for developing the industry, and said that Russia is ready "to join an international project being carried out by the USA and Western countries to develop fourth- generation reactors".]

Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific

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