Money row holds up Belarus’s first nuclear power plant | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “The signing of a contract between Russia and Belarus to build the ex-Soviet republic’s first nuclear power plant has been delayed due to disagreements over the project’s cost, the Russian ambassador to Belarus said on Wednesday.
The ex-Soviet country, which was one of the most affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, plans to build the plant in its western Grodno region, with the first reactor expected to be put into service in 2016 and the second in 2018. The Russian nuclear equipment export monopoly, Atomstroyexport, is to implement the project.”