— In any event, the social importance of NPP construction may not be overlooked. It will improve the employment situation in the region, increasing the loading of the construction facilities of the region and its neighbours.

On October 30, the public hearings on draft statement of work for environmental impact assessment regarding the Central NPP will take place in Chistye Bory, Buyskiy District, the Kostroma Region. Deployment of the Central NPP was approved by the decree of the Head of Administration of Buyskiy municipal district in July 2008 and a resolution of the Kostroma regional administration in October 2008..

Lyubov Nikitina, the analyst of Brokercreditservice Financial Group:

Currently the project for the Central NPP construction has been considered from the viewpoint of a long-term implementation. Despite the fact, the Kostroma is a surplus region, the energy supplier to the neighbouring regions, the crisis phenomena have not passed it by.

In any event, the social importance of NPP construction may not be overlooked. It will improve the employment situation in the region, increasing the loading of the construction facilities of the region and its neighbours. It will give a huge impetus to development of power-generation supporting activities. Besides, the regional budget will acquire the new major tax-payer.

Now we can hardly talk of any competition between the Central and Novgorod NPPs. However, if construction of both NPPs is carried out at the same time, we do not exclude a synergistic effect.

ABOUT THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT:

Construction of the Central NPP is suggested at Buyskiy District of the Kostroma Region, 10 km to the northwest of Buy City, on the right bank of Kostroma River. At the Central NPP construction provisions are made for designing of the power-generating units #1 and #2 with the total capacity of at least 2,340 MWt. The rated capacity per 1 power-generating unit shall be at least 1,170 mWt (e); the service life of a power-generating unit shall make 60 years; power efficiency factor (net) is at least 34.7%; mean average operating ratio at the rated capacity – 0.92; predicted capacity factor for a power-generating unit – 0.90; auxiliary power consumption – under 7.0% of the total output; specific number of industrial and manufacturing employees providing maintenance services -0.43 pers./MWt.