BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
12/02/2008
Five-country Nuclear Energy exhibition to open in Minsk
MINSK, February 12 (Itar-Tass) - A Nuclear Energy-2008 international specialised exhibition opens here on Tuesday, with about 60 companies from five countries participating.
The exhibition has been arranged to acquaint the Belarus general public and specialists, who will be involved in building nuclear power stations (NPS) and developing the nuclear power industry in Belarus, with the world's experience in the designing, construction and operation of NPS. The enterprises and organisations from Belarus, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, and Sweden will take part in the exhibition.
A joint Russian exhibition will take up over a half of the exhibition's entire area. Products are to be displayed, in particular, by the RosEnergoAtom Company, and the AtomStrojExport private joint-stock company.
Roundtable meetings are to be held within the framework of the exhibition on the following themes: "Atomic Power Engineering for the Republic of Belarus", "Nuclear Medicine", and "The Training of Personnel for the Nuclear Power Industry".
Alexander Surikov, Ambassador of Russia to Belarus, told journalists on Monday that Russian companies look attentively at the situation ahead of the announcement of a tender by Belarus for the construction of an NPS. "We are waiting for the tender to be announced," he said. The Russian side is to demonstrate its resources at the exhibition.
Belarus had decided to build a 2,000-megawatt NPS. The first power unit is to be energized in 2016 and the second one in 2018.
Source:
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12359439&PageNum=0
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