MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. Russia offers cooperation in the nuclear power sphere in third countries to Saudi Arabia, including in designing nuclear power plants (NPP) with small capacity reactors, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak says at the intergovernmental commission’s meeting.

"The second promising area is the cooperation in small capacity reactors sphere. This is a new area. We offer joint work in this regard for building up Russian-Saudi partnership for refinement of the 600 MW NPP project and its further promotion on the third countries’ market," Novak says.

Russia has competencies in building small units for floating and land-based nuclear power plants and the country is ready to prepare appropriate offers for Saudi Arabia if there is interest, he notes.

The Russian state-run corporation Rosatom currently bids in a tender in Saudi Arabia for construction of a high-capacity NPP. "We are ready to continue taking part in all the tender procedures," Novak adds.