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Russia to Build Nuclear Plant in Kaliningrad | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 27.08.2008
Russia's nuclear energy monopoly Rosatom has agreed on construction of a new power plant in Russia's European exclave of Kaliningrad, the company said.

Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko inked the deal Wednesday, Aug. 27, for the construction of the plant about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the capital of the Baltic Sea exclave between Poland and Lithuania.

 

The plant will have two reactors with a total capacity of 2,300 megawatts on completion of the first stage of construction in 2015.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Aug 27th, 2008 at 03:33:31 PM EST
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Such a plant only makes sense if electricity can be sold to the Baltic countries and Poland. It's thus a gambit to try to shoot down attempts by the Lithuanians to find a structure to build a new nuclear plant to replace the Ignalina one they need to close down under EU rules (their accession agreement). They need new plants, but a nuke is too big for them and makes sense only in a regional context. But there is much political jockeying, and Russia has its say with Kaliningrad.

This comes at an interesting time...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 06:00:51 AM EST
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Russia keeps throwing out aces from its hand. Will it be a full house or 4 of a kind by the time they are done.

Russia's in a big fight, with ill-disguised money against it. 10s, perhaps 100s of millions in these spontaneous <insert_Color> Revolutions. Both the democrats and the repugs of congress finance the National Endowment for Democracy, Soro funds his Open Society Institute, and a complete set of nutter neo-con lizards lever the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and other NGOs on the US side of this fight. They all have current and former CIA and cabinet and congress department-level access or plants.

One wonders if Royale would have played her hand better than Sarko did in Georgia.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 07:06:00 AM EST
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Ooops. Sorry to thread snatch. I started writing this for the Yushchenko related thread below and convoluted everything.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 07:11:52 AM EST
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