“We pay great attention to the development of nuclear energy, all the more since our uranium output is growing significantly,” the president said, in Spot’s Russian rendering. The country has accumulated experience and attracted large investment in uranium mining, he said, which opens the way to nuclear generation.
Mirziyoyev first spoke of preparations for a second plant on 17 August without naming a partner country, Spot recalls. In September Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic said that Mirziyoyev had told him the second plant was planned with China. The first is being built with Russia.
“We pay great attention to the development of nuclear energy, all the more since our uranium output is growing significantly,” the president said, in Spot’s Russian rendering.
Even two plants will not cover the country’s future demand, Mirziyoyev said in Vucic’s account, with data centres, artificial intelligence projects and electric vehicles lifting consumption.
Spot’s headline speaks of a second and a third plant. Its text names the second.
At the same dialogue the president set targets for the grid, Spot reported on Saturday: 5,000 km of lines and 16 large substations by 2030, with Afghanistan and South Asia named as export directions.
The investor talks on the second plant were scheduled for Saturday 17 October. No account of them had appeared on Spot’s front by noon on Monday, Tashkent time.