Forest Land Allocated for Nuclear Plant

The St. Petersburg Times

Published: July 18, 2012 (Issue # 1718)

MOSCOW — The government has allocated 242.3 hectares of land from the forest fund to construct the Nizhny Novgorod Nuclear Power Plant, Interfax reported. According to a government order dated July 11, 242.3 hectares in the Nizhny Novgorod region included in the Navashino district forest area will be transferred to the category of land for industry, energy, transport, communications, broadcasting, television and informatics, land for space activities, land for defense and security and land for other special purposes for the construction of nuclear power plants.

Last November, the government signed an order to build the power plant with two energy-generating units and launch in 2019 and 2021. Preliminary data has the project estimated to cost 240 billion rubles ($7.38 billion). The plan is to build the facility in the Navashino district, one kilometer west of the town of Monakovo near the Murom — Nizhny Novgorod road.