Baku, Azerbaijan, July 7
By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:
The delegation from Uzbekistan held talks in Belarus, during which they studied the experience of implementing the Belarusian nuclear power program, the Ministry of Energy of Belarus stated.
Within the framework of the visit, the Uzbek delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Board of Uzbekneftegaz JSC Alisher Sultanov visited the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP).
The Uzbek delegation visited the information center of the NPP, got acquainted with the social infrastructure of the city of Ostrovets, with activities of the training center and construction of the Belarusian NPP.
Construction of the Belarusian NPP is being carried out by the Russian Rosatom, which is also engaged in construction of the NPPs in Akkuyu (Turkey) and Uzbekistan.
It was earlier reported that Tashkent and Moscow are completing the intergovernmental agreement on construction of two NPP units in Uzbekistan.
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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