To complement a recent post by Pavel Podvig on the massive subsidy to Rosatom, here is a quick take on Russia’s nuclear energy development plans (or dreams, whatever) from the Russian Ministry for Economic Development’s draft Concept-2020.

Russia will become a global player in the nuclear sector if by 2012–2015 it enhances the total capacity of its nuclear power plants to 28–35 GW and by 2020 – to 50–53 GW, gradually transits to a new technological platform based on fast-breeder reactors and closed fuel cycle, starts producing small- and medium-capacity reactors for its remote areas and the world’s developing economies and brings its nuclear equipment and technologies export to the level of $8bln-14bln by 2020 (calculated in the prices of 2006).

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One more priority is to actively integrate Russia’s nuclear power industry into the world economy (in both fuel and equipment production) by enhancing the competitiveness of Russian NPPs projects, intensifying uranium prospecting work and developing cooperation with foreign partners in fuel production.

More here. The Concept also stresses the importance of the Angarsk International Uranium Enrichment Center, repeating the mantra that “a network of such centers would ensure nondiscriminatory access for non-nuclear states to low-enriched fuel for nuclear power plants with all nonproliferation requirements observed.” The full text of the draft Concept-2020 is available in Russian.

And here is another report in Russian, this one on the ecological safety at the Angarsk Electrolytic Chemical Combine that I’ve been meaning to link to for some time. Nothing new in it, but there is a useful list of legislation pertaining to the Combine’s impact on the environment. (Call the report a Bellona-special, if you will.)