Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Russian company Rosatom plans to sign a contract for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan. This was announced to TASS on Thursday at the site of the Second Youth Forum of the CIS and the EAEU by Director for Capital Investments, State Construction Supervision and State Expertise of the state corporation Gennady Sakharov.

According to him, as soon as the contract for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan is signed, the Russian company is ready to launch the construction of the project as soon as possible. "We expect this to happen in the near future," Sakharov added.