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By the end of the century, nuclear power will produce most of Soviet electricity. Transport of Siberian oil and gas to European Russia will greatly diminish. East of the Urals, where the coal fields lie, coal-burning power plants will produce electricity. Oil and gas will be used for chemical feedstocks and for export. Atommash will also increase the ability of the USSR to export nuclear reactors. The Soviet Union is certain that atomic energy will provide most of the world's future energy needs.

Taking the lead in nonproliferation might win some domestic political points for host countries with developed nuclear capabilities. 3) Geographic, geologic, hydrologic, climatic, and demographic suitability of candidate sites have to be considered. These technical criteria are much easier to satisfy for simple fuel storage than for reprocessing or disposal. An ideal site could support the type of centralized storage/reprocessing/disposal facility planned at Gorleben, West Germany, but such sites areextremely rare.

3 percent of which came from the Soviet Union. Poland had planned to develop a small, independent nuclear power industry using its own uranium to fuel natural uranium reactors.

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