Source: Radio "Voice of Russia"
After a few years on the African
continent, Nigeria is likely to appear a second nuclear power station
(the first was built in South Africa). Construction of nuclear power
plant could take Russia.
Already announced for the undertaking of
the intergovernmental agreement, which provides for cooperation in the
design, construction, operation and decommissioning of the first nuclear
power plant in Nigeria. This was reported by the corporation "Rosatom".
After
the accident at the nuclear power plant "Fukushima" some countries have
decided on the gradual closure of nuclear power plants. Overall,
however, the world is not going to give up the peaceful atom. In Africa,
nuclear generation is virtually absent, except for nuclear power plants
"Koeberg" in the south of the continent, and the interest in it is
growing, the director of the communications department of the state
corporation "Rosatom" Sergey Novikov:
"The
concern is that nuclear power in the world will evolve. As an
environmentally friendly source of energy available to the new EU
energy-hungry. This is also a technology platform for the development of
new technologies, including new energy sources in the future. Therefore
demand for domestic nuclear power occurs in different regions:
Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Including the African
continent. And wherever there is a demand for this, Russian media as
one of the top three technologies at the global nuclear energy market is
ready for mutually beneficial conditions to participate in the creation
of a national nuclear power program. "
According to the
World Nuclear Association, an interest in the development of peaceful
nuclear energy in Africa exhibit Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Sudan,
Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Namibia. However, for these countries to
talk about concrete steps to translate the ideas of peaceful nuclear
energy is too early. But in the case of Nigeria, made the first steps,
said Sergei Novikov:
"Since
Nigeria signed an intergovernmental agreement on the peaceful use of
nuclear energy. Now experts have completed work on a new draft of the
intergovernmental document on the construction of the first nuclear
power plant in Nigeria. At the level of delegations agreed text of the
document, and now Rosatom, and our counterparts in Nigeria transmit
these documents to the governments of the two countries that there were
procedures for the approval and adoption, and the document would be
ready for signing. "
Of course, an intergovernmental agreement -
it's not a contract, prior to the commencement of construction. But
experts believe that the work on it is within the scope of Rosatom,
which seeks to create a broad framework for international cooperation in
the field of nuclear power generation. In addition, cooperation with
Nigeria is interesting from another point of view, the Chief Editor of
the atomic portalAtomic-Energy.ru Pavel Yakovlev:
"Nigeria is one of the largest producers of uranium. Around
seven per cent of the total uranium is concentrated in Nigeria.
Therefore, interest in this country is not accidental. Until recently,
there was a major player in France, and the French mining companies were
active there."
On the issue of security, then, according to
Sergei Novikov, any project of building the first new nuclear power
plant in the country accompanied by regulation and supervision of the
IAEA. All of these technologies are perfected. And there does not need
to invent anything in terms of physical protection of nuclear
facilities.
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