Even the worst scenario at the Japanese nuclear power plants is not a threat to Russia’s Far East, the head of Rosatom (Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation), Sergey Kiriyenko, said at a council with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ITAR-TASS reports.
Putin supervised a council on the Japanese nuclear power plants. He ordered Rosatom to analyze Russian plans on construction of nuclear power plants, taking into account the situation in Japan. The Energy Ministry, Rosatom and the Ecology Ministry have a month to fulfil the order.
Putin proposed speeding up the realization of hydrocarbon extraction projects in the Far East, including the Sakhalin-3 project, to increase supplies for Japan.
Russian Minister of Ecology Yuri Trutnev, Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko, Deputy Emergencies Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, head of the Russian Federal Service for Hydro-Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring Alexander Frolov, head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko and director of the Institute for Security Problems of Developing Nuclear Energy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leonid Bolshov were at the council.
