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Russia joins Japan in planning to make money out of Britain’s nukes

‘The British market is very attractive,’ said the group’s director of communications, Sergei Novikov…..

  An agreement yesterday between the UK government and Japan ‘will open up opportunities’ for British firms to decommission the country’s nuclear sites.

Russian nuclear giant that built Chernobyl interested in erecting generators in Britain… well, they do have glowing references Daily Mail, By PETER CAMPBELL, 11 April 2012 |  The Russian nuclear giant that built Chernobyl has confirmed interest in erecting generators in Britain. Kremlin-owned Rosatom is fundamentally the same group that built the Ukrainian reactors, one of which exploded in 1986.
The blast released four hundred times more radioactive material into
the Earth’s atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima,
according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.  And fallout from
the disaster contributed to almost 1m premature cancer deaths, a
leading Russian study concluded in 2004.
Now the Russian giant is turning its gaze towards Britain.
In its sights are Wylfa on Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire…..
the German companies pulled out last month after spiralling costs, and
are now looking to sell the £16bn Horizon project.
One by one, major nuclear operators ruled themselves out.
EDF – which runs Britain’s existing plants and is already vying to
build a fleet of new reactors – said it would not buy into the
project.
But now the Russian group, which was widely tipped to be interested,
has confirmed it is looking at the UK.
‘The British market is very attractive,’ said the group’s director of communications, Sergei Novikov…..   An agreement yesterday between the UK government and Japan ‘will open up opportunities’ for British firms to decommission the country’s nuclear sites.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128062/Russian-nuclear-giant-built-Chernobyl-interested-erecting-generators-Britain–glowing-references.html#ixzz1rrlgAzYU

April 12, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Russia