Russian ministry agrees to postponement of new reactors

Russian ministry agrees to postponement of new reactors
Russia's ministry of economic development has approved the postponement of the commissioning of new power plants, its deputy minister, Nikolai Podguzov, announced yesterday.
The ministry estimates that "a very significant" delay to the start-up of the nuclear power units is being made, Podguzov said, according to the TASS news agency, but all the relevant federal executive bodies have agreed with Rosatom's decision to postpone commissioning. "These units are simply not needed at the moment thanks to a current energy surplus," he said. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Russian-ministry-agrees-to-postponement-of-new-reactors-27051501.html