Rosatom vows it will sign a contract for the construction of the first nuclear power plant with Uzbekistan. This was stated on Thursday at the second youth forum of the CIS and the EAEU by the director for capital investments, state construction supervision and state expertise of the state corporation Gennady Sakharov, TASS said.
“As soon as our partners from Uzbekistan enter into a contract for the project of the first nuclear power plant, Rosatom is ready to deploy the launch the project swiftly. We expect this to happen in the near future,” Sakharov said.
He also noted that this would be the first project in Uzbekistan.
“We are entering countries where there is no nuclear culture, nor legislation. Plus, we are creating a nuclear infrastructure for them, and we are preparing legislation, and we are training people,” he underscored.
Sakharov added that there were plans to build two 1,200 MW units.
In December 2017, the governments of Uzbekistan and Russia signed an agreement on the peaceful use of atomic energy. The estimated cost of the first nuclear power plant to be built in Uzbekistan stood at about $11 billion in 2018. The station will consist of two power units with a total capacity of 2.4 gigawatts, it was planned to be built in Jizzakh province.
