Russia to help China build new nuclear reactors at Tianwan plant

 Two new nuclear reactors await.

Russia and China have signed a deal to build these at China's Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant in Jiangsu Province.

The bilateral protocol on the construction of second phase of the plant was signed on Thursday in the presence of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.

Construction work for Tainwan's third and fourth reactors will begin in this month, reports Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti.

Rosatom civilian nuclear power corporation head Sergei Kiriyenko said; "At the end of 2012, the first concrete will be poured for the foundation of the third and fourth reactors."

The Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant is capable of housing as many as eight reactors.

It is the largest facility that Russia and China have built under a bilateral cooperation agreement.

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