WORLD : 6 Soviet Nuclear Projects Scrapped
The Soviet Union has scrapped six nuclear power projects because of earthquake danger or tougher standards imposed after the Chernobyl accident, the nuclear power minister said today.
The list provided at a news conference by Nikolai Lukonin was the first comprehensive report on the state of the Soviet nuclear power industry. He said that projects had been canceled in Azerbaijan, Minsk, Odessa and Krasnodar and that plans to add units to existing plants in Armenia and Georgia had been scrapped. Officials also temporarily suspended work on a third reactor in the Baltic republic of Lithuania, he said.
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