Russia to keep developing nuclear power despite Japan
PTI | 01:03 PM,Mar 17,2011 disaster Moscow, Mar 17 (Itar-Tass) Russia will continue to develop nuclear power, despite the accidents at the reactors in Japan, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said here. Without nuclear power, he said, "to talk about the global energy balance will be impossible." He recalled that the nuclear power plants in Japan, where the accidents occurred, had obsolete equipment from forty years ago. The units and protective systems of modern nuclear power plants have special features precluding the developments that have taken place in Japan, he said. For example, the modern system of passive defense can work even in case external power supply fails - that was precisely what caused adverse developments inside the nuclear power plants in Japan. "This is the type of power plants that we build in Russia today," Putin said. He recalled that he had instructed the departments concerned and the Russian Academy of Sciences to re-examine all options of nuclear power development in Russia and to report the findings to the government within a month. "Despite the tragic events in Japan the development of atomic energy has no alternative," said the executive director of the directorate of the nuclear power complex at the Rosatom corporation, Kirill Komarov. "Despite all the problems at nuclear power plants in Japan that have arisen in extreme conditions, the chain reaction in the reactor was stopped in the normal way. The power plants proved to be reliable," he said. "Modern reactors have a much higher level of protection." Russian reactors, particularly the NPP-2006 project for the Leningrad NPP-2 and the Baltic NPP cannot have any developments like those at the nuclear power plant Fukushima-1 in principle, Ivan Grabelnikov, the chief project engineer of the Baltic nuclear power plant, which was developed by the St.Petersburg institute Atomenergoproekt is learned to have said. NPP-2006 was a modern project of generation Three Plus, while the affected reactors in Japan, were first generation facilities, he said. (Itar-Tass)
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