Azerbaijan to build nuclear reactor

The nuclear power international agency has endorsed the establishment in Azerbaijan of a nuclear research reactor project. Journalists were informed of this by Director of the Azeri National Science Academy Radiation Problem Institute Adil Gharibov.

In three years time the Institute could prepare a feasibility study and submit it to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The cost of the project will be around USD 36 million and the building will be located a hundred kilometres from Baku.