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| Global demand rising for Russian-built nuclear power plants |
| 2018-03-11 |
| [RT] Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom expects to sign foreign contracts worth $26 billion this year for the construction and maintenance of nuclear power plants, official data shows. According to its results for 2017, Rosatom’s portfolio of foreign orders for the next decade totals $133.6 billion. The company traditionally calculates its portfolio of orders for a period of 10 years. Head of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev told news hounds that the firm hopes to exceed the $130-billion mark. The Russian company has recently inked agreements on nuclear cooperation with India, Iran, Egypt, China, and a number of other countries. It is bidding to construct 16 nuclear power plants in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Meltdown 1) Russian 2) Japanese |
| Posted by: texhooey 2018-03-11 22:35 |
| #6 One of japan's companies was building small nuclear reactors for sale. I think I'd trust a Japanese built reactor before a Russian-built one. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-03-11 21:23 |
| #5 stocked with American Uranium courtesy of Hill and Bill |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-03-11 13:15 |
| #4 Inshallah maintenance meets Chernobyl... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-03-11 12:13 |
| #3 You have to wonder where the Saudi's plan to import their operators for the nuke plants from. 'Cause you know that they're not going to do all that themselves. (Also, wonderful target environment for radicals with missiles: discuss.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-03-11 10:25 |
| #2 Didn't General Electric used to have decent market share in this sort of thing? Talk about a company that went to hell... |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-03-11 09:41 |
| #1 This doesn't seem like a good idea, though marginally better than having the Pakistanis build and maintain nuke plants. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-03-11 08:42 |