RUSSIA PLANS TO COMPLETE BUILDING BOTH REACTORS AT INDIA'S KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR-POWER PLANT AS QUICKLY AS QUALITY AND SAFETY CONCERNS ALLOW, ROSATOM ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY HEAD SERGEI KIRIYENKO SAID SATURDAY ON A VISIT TO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE, DPA REPORTED. ONE OF THE TWO RUSSIAN 1,000 MEGAWATT REACTORS WAS ALMOST TWO THIRDS COMPLETE, THE OTHER AS GOOD AS HALF COMPLETE, RUSSIA'S INTERFAX NEWS AGENCY REPORTED. RUSSIA AND INDIA HAD AGREED TO BUILD THE NUCLEAR-POWER PLANT IN THE SOUTHERN STATE OF TAMIL NADU AS LONG AGO AS 1988, BUT WORK ON THE SITE ONLY BEGAN IN MARCH 2001. RUSSIA DOES NOT CONSIDER IT HAS VIOLATED ANY OF THE GUIDELINES OF THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS' GROUP (NSG) - WHICH PROHIBIT ANY NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH INDIA AS IT HAS NOT SIGNED THE NUCLEAR NON- PROLIFERATION TREATY - AS RUSSIA SIGNED THE AGREEMENT WITH INDIA BEFORE JOINING THE NSG. ---SP 22 09 LOCAL TIME 19 09 GMT