MOSCOW, Feb 12 Moscow hopes Riyadh will appreciate the advantages of Rosatom for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia, Russian Ambassador to Riyadh Sergei Kozlov said in an interview.
«Preparation for a tender for the construction of a large-capacity nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia has entered the final stage,» the diplomat said.
According to him, along with Rosatom, companies from China, France, South Korea are participating in the competition, a feature of this project is that the Saudis, who are interested in winning the optimal bid, strive to ensure equal and competitive conditions for all participants. This fact, Kozlov added, is very encouraging for the Russian side for us at the moment, since, he noted, the nuclear power industry of the Russian Federation is a world leader, ahead of foreign counterparts in technology. «We hope that these obvious competitive advantages of the application of the state corporation Rosatom will be properly assessed by the Saudi partners when choosing the winner,» he said.
At the end of December, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak said in an article in the Energy Policy magazine that the state corporation Rosatom had sent documents to participate in the tender for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia.
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