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25 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The company Rosenergoatom, belonging to the group of companies of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, stressed on Tuesday that the work at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, located in southern Ukraine and controlled by Russian troops, will be totally in line with Russian standards for 2030.
“I believe that the conversion of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to Russian standards will take place by 2030,” said Renat Karchaa, adviser to the CEO of Rosenergoatom. “The modernization and development plans are large-scale. At the moment, the analysis process, the details and the preparation of the relevant production processes for launch are underway,” he added.
Thus, he stressed that “Ukraine invested in the development of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant – the largest in Europe – only in word, but not in deed”, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS. “We have to take this into account,” she argued, before explaining that it is a “very expensive” project for Russia.
Karchaa stressed that “it is an investment not only in the plant, but also in the city and the population.” “We did not come for the territory, in Russia there is enough of it. It is not because of the nuclear power plant, since in this sense everything is in perfect order in our state and there is no shortage of nuclear power generation capacity. We came for the people. We came to help”, has settled.
The Zaporizhia plant has six reactors commissioned between 1984 and 1995. It has been controlled by Russian forces since March of last year, shortly after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and has been the scene of constant offensives and a piece coveted by both Kiev and Kiev. like Moscow.
