NEWBUILD: Uzbekistan Charges Forward on Nascent Nuclear Power Plans

摘要

On Sep. 10 the prime ministers of Uzbekistan and Russia signed an agreement to cooperate on a reactor construction project in the Central Asian country, and the next step, according to sources familiar with the situation, will likely be a binding intergovernmental agreement that could be sealed by the end of the year during a meeting of the two countries’ presiOn Sep. 10 the prime ministers of Uzbekistan and Russia signed an agreement to cooperate on a reactor construction project in the Central Asian country, and the next step, according to sources familiar with the situation, will likely be a binding intergovernmental agreement that could be sealed by the end of the year during a meeting of the two countries’ presidents. Developments involving an inaugural VVER facility for Uzbekistan, a nation of over 30 million people, are unfolding at a remarkably rapid pace, to the extent that the project seems to have acquired a rigid sense of inevitability, particularly given the Belarusian precedent (NIW Apr.27’18).