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Nuclear Plant Journal Rapid Response Fax Form July-August 2012 To: _________________________ Company: __________________ Fax: ___________________ From: _______________________ Company: __________________ Fax: ___________________ Address:_____________________ City: _______________________ State: _____ Zip: _________ Phone: ______________________ E-mail: _____________________ I am interested in obtaining information on: __________________________________________________ Comments: _____________________________________________________________________________ 6 www.NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, July-August 2012 International Deals build programme of about 9.6 GWe of New Energy Nigeria signed a cooperation accord new nuclear capacity starting from 2024. with Russia towards the construction of Contact: Sergey Novikov, telephone: its fi rst nuclear power plant on June 7, 7 499 949 44 12, fax: 7 499 949 27 22, 2012 at the AtomExpo event in Moscow. email: [email protected]. Bangladesh and South Africa also agreed Czech Republic to extend their nuclear cooperation with Russia On July 3, 2012, ČEZ opened bids Russia. The government of the Sverdlovsk for the public contract for completing the Rosatom chief, Sergei Kiriyenko region of Russia has approved the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant in the pres- signed a memorandum of understanding construction of the country’s fi rst BN- ence of the bidders- Areva, a consortium with the chairman of the Nigerian 1200 fast reactor at the Beloyarsk nuclear of the Westinghouse Electric Company, Atomic Energy