MINSK, 23 May (BelTA) – Belarus is intent on expanding cooperation with Rosatom. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko made the statement as he met with Director General of the Russian state nuclear industry corporation Rosatom Alexey Likhachev, BelTA has learned.
Roman Golovchenko said: “Thanks to the commissioning of the Belarusian nuclear power plant our country received a substantial advantage and beefed up energy security. Essentially with your direct involvement we’ve formed a new branch of the economy, which has become a big impulse for the assimilation of new technologies and new innovative solutions. After the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was completed, our relations with Rosatom did not slow down but they successfully advance in a number of cooperation avenues.”
For instance, the governments of Belarus and Russia have signed a memorandum on stepping up strategic cooperation in peaceful uses of atomic energy and allied high technologies in addition to a complex program on Belarusian-Russian cooperation in the field of non-energy atomic projects and non-atomic projects.
“I’d like to assure you that we are intent on expanding interaction with the state corporation Rosatom,” the prime minister of Belarus stressed.
Alexey Likhachev remarked that it is a great honor for Rosatom to work in Belarus. “Thanks to the joint work of the Belarusian government, the Energy Ministry, and Rosatom Europe’s youngest, most efficient, and safest nuclear power plant is now located outside Ostrovets. But we don’t stop at that. We are considering about 40 projects unrelated to nuclear technologies. They are at different degrees of readiness but in our opinion each of them will become an attractive industrial and manufacturing project with new jobs, tax revenues, and further development of competences, including for shipments to third countries. The main criterion for us is that we want more than simple joint R&D work. We want enterprises with attractive economic parameters as a result,” the Rosatom director general sketched out the prospects.
