TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, December 11. Uzbekistan and Russia’s Rosatom are discussing the possibility of using dry cooling technology in a nuclear power plant, to be built in the Uzbek region of Jizzakh, Polina Lyon, Head of Sustainable Development Department at Rosatom said, Trend reports.
The remark was made during the briefing at the Russian pavilion of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28) in Dubai.
"We are currently holding discussions with Uzbek partners on using dry cooling towers in the joint project. It is a rather complicated technological solution, but we are thinking a little ahead. And, in fact, the issue of minimum water consumption for nuclear energy is also on the agenda," she said.
The company representative added that instead of traditional cooling towers, where water evaporates for cooling, the dry cooling tower uses air coolers, which reduces water consumption.
Meanwhile, in 2018, Uzbekistan and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the construction of nuclear power plants in the Uzbek regions.
The document provides for the construction of a nuclear power plant from two VVER-1200 generation ‘3+’ power units with a capacity of 1200 MW each from the Rosatom corporation.