21 Sep 2012 18:34

Rosenergoatom wants to bring Kursk NPP-2 launch forward

KURSK. Sept 21 (Interfax) - OJSC Rosenergoatom, the Russian state nuclear power concern, wants to bring the launch of the Kursk-2 nuclear power plant forward a few years, the Kursk regional administration's press office said.

"We must create substitution capacity earlier than we proposed," Yevgeny Romanov, the general director of Rosenergoatom, was quoted as saying at a meeting on the formation of municipal entities at the NPP site.

"We're now looking into starting to build the first and second blocks of the Kursk-2 plant earlier, putting the substitution capacity in place as soon as possible, by 2018-2019 instead 2019-2021," he said.

Reports have said the first unit was due to be commissioned by 2020.