Russia to start work on Baltic NPP

摘要

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin February 24 approved a new Russian nuclear power station that has worried ecologists, with officials saying that the first stone would be laid that week. Putin agreed to the construction of the nuclear power station in Russia's Baltic territory of Kaliningrad on the border with the European Union, the government said. "The first stone will be laid tomorrow (February 25)," a spokesman for Russia's nuclear energy state corporation Rosatom, Sergei Novikov, told AFP.