MOSCOW, 1 June (BelTA) - Nuclear power can become “new oil”, Rosatom's First Deputy Director General for Corporate Development and International Business Kirill Komarov told media at the AtomExpo forum in Moscow on 31 May, BelTA has learned.
Today nuclear power industry has been rapidly gaining momentum in the developing countries. “For any developing country the construction of a nuclear power plant is a giant impetus in the social and economic development: new jobs, technologies, education level, new living standards in the country. We are glad that Rosatom can open access to these benefits in any country on the globe. We are open to any cooperation,” Kirill Komarov noted.
The increasing interest in setting up nuclear science and technology centers proves the fact that more and more countries would like to develop nuclear power industry. “Not all the countries are ready to start from such a big and technologically complicated project as a nuclear power plant. A center of the kind is based on a research reactor and a set of laboratories. We see a big interest from many countries in these technologies,” he said.
According to Kirill Komarov, Rosatom keeps its global leading positions in the construction of nuclear power plants (34 projects abroad, including the Belarusian nuclear power plant and the construction of eight power generating units in Russia) and uranium enrichment. Rosatom is among world's top three producers of nuclear fuel and is the world's only vertically integrated company possessing all the elements of the technological chain in the nuclear power industry.
