Russia Willing to Build Nuclear Power Plant in NK: Itar-Tass

The Korea Times : Russia Willing to Build Nuclear Power Plant in NK: Itar-Tass

MOSCOW (Yonhap) ? Russian specialists could build a nuclear power plant in North Korea within six to seven years and thus partially solve its energy problems, an official at Russia’s Federal Agency for Atomic Energy (Rosatom) told the Itar-Tass news agency Monday.
He said, “This is quite possible if the construction of such a nuclear power plant will be commercially profitable for Russia and North Korea will return to the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.” Soviet specialists did preparatory work in the 1970s-1980s to choose a construction site in North Korea for a nuclear power plant with a VVER-1000 reactor.

However, the work was later suspended and has not resumed and Rosatom has not been holding any talks with North Korean nuclear specialists, the official said.

Alexander Alexeyev, Russia’s chief delegate to the sixparty talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, told Itar-Tass earlier in the day that the talks now under way in Beijing are likely to finish at the end of this week.


08-02-2005 21:09