Russia to spend $3.8bln on nuclear energy technology in 2010-2012
08:50, 23 July 2009
SAROV (Nizhny Novgorod Region). July 23. KAZINFORM Russia will allocate over 120 billion rubles ($3.8 billion) for a federal program to develop new generation nuclear energy technology in 2010-2012, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
Speaking at a session of the commission for the modernization and technological development of the economy, Medvedev said that creating conditions for scientific advances in the field of physics was a top priority state task.
"For this purpose, the government has prepared a medium-term federal target program of new generation nuclear energy technology," Medvedev said.
The president said that the program would receive financing from next year, Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
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