Baku, Azerbaijan, June 25
By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:
Uzbekistan and Russia achieved agreement on construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Uzbekistan, RIA Novosti reported citing Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Russia, Bakhrom Ashrafkhanov.
According to the latter, the two countries are currently developing a plan for implementation of the project.
“We have an agreement now, so the nuclear power plant will be built for sure. We are currently developing a road map,” the envoy said, adding that the project is worth “many billion dollars”.
In mid-April 2018, during the opening of the Kandym gas processing complex, the president of Uzbekistan said that an agreement on construction of the first NPP in the region will be signed with Russia until the end of 2018.
The Russian side offers Uzbekistan to build a station consisting from two modern generation 3+ VVER-1200 units. The project of a similar NPP, which Rosatom is building in Bangladesh, costs roughly $13 billion, $11.3 billion of which is provided by Russia as a state export credit.
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