Russia plans atomic energy expansion

Russia is planning to expand the share of atomic energy in its total energy consumption from the current 16% to up to 24% in the coming decade, Minister for Energy and Industry Viktor Khristenko has revealed. Russia will start building new atomic energy reactors next year, with the reactors due to begin operating in 2011 or 2012, Khristenko said.

Russia is keen to expand its nuclear industry at home and abroad and has made bringing energy to developing countries a theme of its chairmanship of the G8 (Group of Eight) nations. Moscow is building Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr, in the southwest of the country, amid international criticism of Iran's nuclear programme.

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