GLOBAL RECESSION SPELLS TOUGH TIMES FOR RUSSIA’S TROUBLED NUCLEAR REACTOR EXPANSION PROGRAMME
November 1st, 2008
BY MARK ROWE
FOR the nuclear power plant industry, global economic crises can make for uncertain times. On the one hand, the long lead-in times associated with construction, along with copper-bottomed signed state contracts, should mean many projects continue as usual. But the ground may shift when it comes to grandiose expansion plans that have yet to gain real pace, and an excellent example of this is Russia's nuclear ambitions, which have been further clouded by the diplomatic fallout from its war with Georgia earlier in August.
Russia currently operates 10 ...
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