Summary
Russia has scored a prestigious victory, winning a tender for the construction of a nuclear power plant at Belene, a small Bulgarian town on the Danube. "This is a big day for Russia," said Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power.
"Russia is returning to the European nuclear-power construction market. This is a great event because we have not built anything in Europe since the Soviet era, and now we're back." Given that Bulgaria will join the European Union on Jan. 1, the building of a power plant at Belene will be Russia's first construction project on the union's territory.See the full content of this document
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Russia Re-Emerges As Nuclear Powerhouse
The Russian company, Atomstroyexport, had to compete with powerful Western corporations: the Czech Republic's Skoda, Japan's Toshiba and the Anglo-American Westinghouse consortium. The tender was very complex; the Bulgarian side invited more than 200 experts from eight countri...
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