Business plan of construction of Belarusian nuclear power plant to be finished till beginning of 2009

The elaboration of a business plan of construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant will be finished in 2008 or at the beginning of 2009. The deputy head of the Department of Investment Development of the Ministry of Energy Uladzimir Babrou has informed about it today.

He noted that the share of nuclear power produced in Belarus will be about 14-15% after the construction of a 200 MW nuclear power plant.

Moreover, specialists from the Ministry of Energy claim that the energy produced by the atomic power plant will be 25-30% cheaper. Babrou specified that the price estimation was done on the basis of work of nuclear power plants in Russia, the USA and some other countries.

“Interfax”