NOGINSK, Moscow region. May 20 (Interfax) - Russia is prepared to tackle consequences of possible disasters similar to the catastrophe at the quake-damaged Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan, Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
"I think that Russia is ready for them," Shoigu told journalists in the town of Noginsk outside Moscow on Friday.
"After the disaster at the Fukushima-1 NPP, we and Rosatom [the Russian state atomic energy corporation] have developed a robotic device that will be able to deliver reserve energy sources to the disaster area, as well as supply large amounts of water to cool reactors and to clean up rubble in the absence of people," he said.
Russia learnt all of the necessary lessons after the Chernobyl disaster, and emergency centers in charge of clean-up operations were set up at all of Russia's nuclear power plants 18 years ago, Shoigu said.