Russia and Slovakia have signed a deal on long-term cooperation in nuclear power engineering, Russia's state nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly AtomStroyExport said on Tuesday.

AtomStroyExport participated today in the second meeting of the Russian-Slovak working group on nuclear power engineering, part of an inter-governmental commission on bilateral economic, scientific and technical cooperation.

The commission noted the successful development of Russian-Slovak cooperation in nuclear power engineering, ensuring the safe operation of Slovakia's nuclear power plants. Slovakia voiced support for the participation of Russian companies in modernizing Slovakia's reactors, AtomStroyExport said in a statement.

"The Russian side confirmed its readiness to implement projects to extend the term of operation of the Bohunice plant, increase the capacity of existing reactors of Slovakian nuclear plants, finish the construction of reactors 3 and 4 of the Mohovice plant and build new reactors for nuclear plants in Slovakia," the statement said.

Nuclear power plants in Slovakia were built using Russian light-water reactor technology. Under an inter-governmental agreement signed between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, Russian technology was used to build and operate the Bohunice plant, with a capacity of 1.76 GW (four VVER-440 units) and the Mohovice plant with output of 880 MW (2 VVER-440 units).

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti)