Rosatom's Global Leadership in Nuclear Technology Recognized: CEO

Alexei Likhachev stressed that currently only Russia is implementing fourth-generation projects

Moscow, October 12. /TASS/. Alexey Likhachev, the general manager of the state-owned company, told reporters after the government's strategic meeting that Rusatom's leadership in the global nuclear technology market is recognized and recognized worldwide.

"Each strategic meeting serves as a preliminary review of the results. Today we clearly understand - and this was reported - the extent of our leadership in nuclear technologies. This is universally recognized and was achieved thanks to the decades of work of Soviet and Russian scientists, developers and engineers. We are already on the international market in terms of the number of power units under construction in Russia abroad."

He emphasized the superiority of Russian specialists in the most advanced nuclear technologies.

He added: "Only Russia is implementing fourth-generation projects - closed fuel cycle energy systems that use fast and thermal reactors. This configuration enables the closure of the nuclear fuel cycle and frequent recycling of fissile material between different types of reactors."