Nuclear energy in Russia

The Russian company Rosatom is open to the possibility to participate in the financing of the Belene NPP if the project is resumed. This was announced by Vadim Titov, who is the director of Rosatom International Network for Central Europe. He participated in a conference dedicated to nuclear energy in Bulgaria.

The Ankara Chamber of Industry and several Russian institutions have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the training of workers for the construction of nuclear power facilities in southern Turkey.

Russia is "ready" to finance in full the expansion of Hungary's only nuclear plant, Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Feb. 2 in Budapest.

The original agreement signed between Hungary and Russia's Rosatom in 2014 involved an 80-percent loan of 10-billion-euro ($11-billion) from Moscow.

The arbitration suit which Rosatom won against Bulgaria has been pointed out as the greatest success of the Russian state corporation in 2016.

This is the conclusion of a comprehensive analysis of the Interfax agency according to which the biggest news is, undoubtedly, the withdrawal of the head of the company Sergey Kirienko and his acceptance of a job for the Kremlin.

The US-Russia rivalry over setting up Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in India has intensified in recent times.

Russia's state-owned Rosatom has put 49 percent of its share in the to-be-built Akkuyu nuclear plant in Turkey on sale after obstacles in financing emerged with the economic problems in Russia, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on April 27.

Oil giant Saudi Arabia, which is trying to diversify its energy sources, signed an agreement on Oct. 19 with Hungary to cooperate in the peaceful use of atomic energy.

It is the latest pact of its kind signed by the world's largest oil exporter, which earlier this year reached similar agreements with Russia and South Korea.

A senior manager at Turkey's first nuclear power plant in the Mediterranean province of Mersin has resigned from his post, claiming that even though Turkey needs nuclear technology, it should not be done with contracted Russian company Rosatom. 

Turkey launched on Tuesday the construction of its first nuclear power plant in the southern province of Mersin, with a ground breaking ceremony that was attended by Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz and other top officials.

Turkey?s first nuclear power plant is unlikely to be ready before 2022, energy officials said on March 23 of the $20-billion project that has been beset by regulatory hurdles and complicated by Russia?s financial woes.