BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 4. Uzbekistan and the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have outlined key vectors
for bilateral regulatory partnership ahead of the official launch
of the country’s first nuclear power plant (NPP) construction
project, Head of the Presidential Administration, Saida
Mirziyoyeva, wrote on her Telegram account, Trend reports.
The operational roadmap was reviewed during a high-level
briefing between Saida Mirziyoyeva, Head of the Executive Office of
the President of Uzbekistan, and IAEA Director General Rafael
Grossi, who arrived in the republic to oversee the landmark energy
initiative.
The dialogue focused primarily on the strategic evolution of
Uzbekistan’s national nuclear energy infrastructure, with a
particular emphasis on engineering capacity building, the
integration of advanced global safety benchmarks, and the joint
development of specialized nuclear medicine programs.
Director General Grossi’s working visit aligns with the
official commencement of full-scale construction works for the
integrated nuclear power station in the Jizzakh region of central
Uzbekistan. The multi-billion-dollar energy facility is being
engineered and deployed by Russia’s Rosatom State Corporation. The
project will feature an integrated configuration combining
large-scale Generation 3+ VVER-1000 reactors with modern RITM-200N
small modular reactors (SMRs) to cover both baseload and peak
electricity demand.
