MOSCOW, 25 September (BelTA) – Belarus intends to sketch out the next steps on advancing cooperation with the Russian state nuclear industry corporation Rosatom, BelTA learned from Belarusian Energy Minister Denis Moroz on the sidelines of the international forum World Atomic Week in Moscow.
Denis Moroz said: “A series of meetings with Rosatom specialists has been planned in order to sketch out the next steps on advancing our system of mutual relations. [Nuclear energy industry] newcomer countries contact us to establish communication and for us to share with them the steps we’ve taken as part of the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The steps Belarus did to build the nuclear power plant are analyzed at the level of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Many of our steps were unique and are now in the list of steps that are recommended to the newcomer countries. This is why very many countries contact us in order to study how we did it in greater detail.”
The energy minister said that interaction with Rosatom covers not only on nuclear energy but also other cutting-edge areas. Additive technologies are one of them.
“Rosatom has unique technologies for making complicated structures and parts using additive technologies. Metal powder is fused by special lasers to become a complicated part. It is a more efficient method for making products. It allows manufacturing parts with very complicated configurations. It is impossible to manufacture these parts using conventional methods,” the energy minister explained.
In his words, Russian partners have a large spectrum of enterprises that possess these technologies and a center for additive technologies will be opened in Belarus soon. Thanks to that Belarusian enterprises will get access to 3D printers able to make complicated parts.
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