22 May (NucNet): Russia and Uzbekistan have signed a contract to perform engineering surveys at a proposed site for the central Asian country’s first commercial nuclear power plant.
Russia’s state nuclear corporation Roatom said the contract, signed in Tashkent, will allow survey work to start at the site, in the Forish district in the region of Jizzakh, southwest of the capital Tashkent.
In September 2018 Russia and Uzbekistan signed a preliminary agreement to cooperate on the construction of a nuclear power station in Uzbekistan.
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said it will build two Generation III+ VVER 1,200-MW plants with the first unit to begin commercial operation by 2028.
