Lithuanian Minister of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas said at an energy investment convention yesterday that Russian and Belarusian plans to build two nuclear power plants won’t stop the Visaginas project.
Russia is set to build a nuclear power plant this year in the Kaliningrad exclave, squeezed between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic coast. Meanwhile Belarus is seeking to build a nuclear power plant, too and both may come online before the Visaginas starts operating in 2016.
Russia and Myanmar signed an intergovernmental agreement for the construction of a small modular reactor On 4 March, an intergovernmental agreement on principles of cooperation in the construction of a SMR (small modular reactor) in Myanmar was signed during the state visit of Myanmar leadership to Russia. The document was signed in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Administration Council and Prime Minister of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, by Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom State Corporation Director General, and Dr. Myo Thein Kyaw, Union Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The intergovernmental agreement regulates the conditions and main directions of interaction between...