OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2008. By 2020 the export of equipment and technologies of Russia’s nuclear industry will reach \\$8bln-14bln, says the draft concept for long-term development of Russia published on the web-site of the Ministry of Economic Development and to be examined by the Russian Government in May 2008.

One of the mid-term priorities of the industry is to integrate into the world economy. For this purpose, Russia is going to intensify its work to prospect and develop uranium mines at home and abroad, to develop its international cooperation in the field of fuel cycle and to establish centers that will provide nuclear fuel cycle services to foreign partners.

In 2012–2015 Russia is planning to increase the total capacity of its nuclear power plants from 23GW to 28–36GW and by 2020 to 50–53GW. For this purpose, the country is going to build new reactors (19–20GW by 2020) and to upgrade the existing ones.

In 2020 Russia’s nuclear industry will start transition to a new technological platform based on fast-breeder reactors and closed fuel cycle. For this purpose, Russia should stimulate relevant research and should actively develop related industries, such as power equipment construction, automatics, information and nano-technologies.