hewitt.mobi: Russia & The New Rush To Nuclear...& Joseph Conrad

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Sunday, February 19, 2006
Russia & The New Rush To Nuclear...& Joseph Conrad - Twixt Land & Sea

The Russian government announced a new strategy for nuclear power early this year. President Vladimir Putin the Russian premier, outlined the basis for a new rush..to nuclear which would involve the building of 40 new reactors. The share he said, of nuclear energy generation should increase from the current 16-17 percent to 25 percent by 2030. The Russian president emphasized the research and development of so-called fast breeder reactors (FBR), which produce more fissile material than they consume.

Russian nuclear power stations

On 30 January, Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, or RosAtom, announced that Russia would build in the next 15 years up to 40 new reactors just for domestic use at a cost of $60 billion. Russia's nuclear plans were formulated in a document drafted in December 2005 by the Moscow-based, pro-Kremlin World Development Institute. According to the institute's director, Yury Krupnov,

Russia's Asian neighbors plan to increase their nuclear power output in the next 15 years. The report predicted that China is reportedly planning on building up to 30 new reactors, while India, Iran, South Korea, and potentially Indonesia are planning on increasing their nuclear-power capacity tenfold. That, Krupnov argued, gives Russia the opportunity to sell its FBRs on the Asian market.

World gas reserves

This is interesting, Russia has some of the largest natural energy resources, gas & oil. This push for nuclear is far sighted. Far more far sighted than our own government who are seemingly content to let us be reliant on imported gas. The recent price rises seen in the wholesale gas market are evidence if any were required of the danger of this strategy.

Jacobus having put me in mind of his wealthy brother I concluded I would pay that business call at once. I had by that time heard a little more of him. He was a member of the Council, where he made himself objectionable to the authorities. He exercised a considerable influence on public opinion. Lots of people owed him money.

Joseph Conrad - Twixt Land & Sea

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