According to vice deputy Alexander Polozok in the Murmansk county administration committee responsible for fuel and energy supply, there are two likely scenarios for the energy situation on the Kola Peninsula after the year 2000. In the second scenario industry expands, and the region consequently faces energy shortage.
Plans exist for two new nuclear power plants on the Kola Peninsula.
The first one is to be located eight kilometers from the currently operating Kola Nuclear Power Plant in Polyarnye Zori. Construction works was started on the KNPP-2 in 1991, but has proceeded in slow motion due to a lack of financing. The estimated cost of the KNPP-2 amounts to 5.5 billion US dollars. The underground reactor installations, developed by Krylov Scientific Institute in St. Petersburg, will be similar to those used on the submarines. According to the design sketches, the reactors will be located in four air-tight and 80 meters long tunnels.