OZERSK, Urals, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - The head of Russia's nuclear power agency said Tuesday that a nuclear power plant with four VVER-1000 power units would be built in the Urals.

"We have analyzed the situation with power engineers and the presidential envoy [to the Ural Federal District, Pyotr Latyshev], and we realized that the Urals would experience a lack of electric energy and that an NPP is needed here to cover the anticipated deficit," Sergei Kiriyenko told journalists.

Kiriyenko said the main condition for construction of the Yuzhnouralskaya NPP was public approval for the project.

"If we do [build the NPP], we will solve long-term tasks of the Chelyabinsk Region," he said, adding that nuclear power plants were the largest taxpayers in their regions.

The Soviet government signed a resolution on construction of the Yuzhnouralskaya NPP in 1983, but construction was suspended in 1990 due to a lack of financing and protests by environmentalists.