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Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak and
Minister Masayuki Naoshima of the
Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI) signed a memorandum
of cooperation on the peaceful uses of
nuclear energy.
According to the memorandum,
Japan will assist Poland with its nuclear
power development plans, aiming at
operating the first nuclear power plant
(NPP) in that country around 2020.
From the viewpoints of maintaining a
stable supply of energy and implementing
measures against global warming, Poland
recently resumed its consideration of
starting up a new reactor by 2020. The
country has already decided to adopt a
nuclear energy program this year, in order
to identify the NPP’s construction site.
Contact: Japan Atomic Industrial
Forum, Inc., email: information@jaif.
or.jp.
Vietnam
During his recent stay in Washington,
D.C., to attend the Nuclear Security
Summit, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama
met Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen
Tan Dung, conveying the Japanese
government’s strong support for Vietnam’s
plan to introduce nuclear power for the
first time. He also expressed Japan’s hope
to begin negotiations with Vietnam on a
nuclear cooperation agreement between
the two countries in the near future.
Contact: Japan Atomic Industrial
Forum, Inc., email: information@jaif.
or.jp.
South Texas Project
Nuclear Innovation North America
LLC (NINA), the nuclear development
company jointly owned by NRG Energy,
Inc. and Toshiba Corporation announced
an agreement for the Building and Construction
Trades Department (BCTD) of
the AFL-CIO to provide skilled union labor
to construct the two new nuclear units
at the South Texas Project (STP).
Approximately 6,000 people will
work up to 25 million hours to build the
new units, STP 3&4, which are located
about 100 miles southwest of Houston in
Matagorda County, Texas. Construction
of the new units is expected to begin in
2012, once NINA receives its Combined
Operating License from the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, and should last
five years with unit 3 coming online in
2016 and unit 4 in 2017.
Contact: David Knox, telephone:
(713) 795-6106.
Turkey
Russia and Turkey signed an international
agreement concerning the cooperation
in construction and operation of a
four-reactor nuclear power plant planned
for Akkuyu site in Mersin Province.
The draft agreement was approved by
a resolution by the Russian government of
May 9, 2010. According to the document,
the Russian party within three months
commencing the agreement entering into
force will start procedures to set up an
engineering company to implement the
project, including the Akkuyu N-plant
operation.
Contact: Rosatom, telephone: 7 499
949 46 50, fax: 7 499 949 27 22, email:
press@rosatom.ru.
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