Russia’s state-owned nuclear power companies are hoping to
convince U.K. legislators to allow them to build nuclear power
plants, Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said
on Monday. The U.K. has 16 nuclear reactors at nine nuclear
power plants, generating about one sixth of the United Kingdom’s
electricity. In October 2010, the British government gave the
green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in
the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the
Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much
of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super
fuel. Last year, Russia and Bangladesh signed an to build that
country’s first nuclear power plant by Russian nuclear power
company Rosatam. Russia also supplies the fuel, so Bangladesh is
not enriching uranium. As of July 2012, there were 435 nuclear
power plants in operation around the world. The U.S. has the
most with 104. Russia is third with 33 and the U.K. has 13.
Japan is number two wit