Russia has signed agreements with Nigeria to build and operate a nuclear power plant in Nigeria.
State-owned Russian nuclear company Rosatom said in an emailed statement that feasibility studies for the plant and a research center construction will include site screening, capacity, financing, and time frames of the projects.
Representatives from the firm and the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission signed the deal.
In 2009, both countries signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of peaceful usage of nuclear technologies. Nigeria in 2015 was in talks with Rosatom to build as many as four nuclear power plants costing about $20 billion, the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission said at the time.
Nigeria distributes an average of 4,500 megawatts of electricity. Half the output of the Egbin power plant, the nation’s biggest, is lost because of inadequate transmission infrastructure, its chief officer said last month.
Rosatom is seeking to build nuclear power plants in other countries on the continent including South Africa.
