On 5 October 2016, President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexei Likhachev CEO of Rosatom. Alexei Likhachev previously held the position of the First Deputy Minister of Economic Development being in charge of foreign trade activities. Last month he organized in Moscow a high level meeting between the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) and Russia Industrialists and …
India has set for itself an ambitious target to generate 63000 MW of nuclear energy by 2032. In order to hit this target India has decided to expand its nuclear power program by establishing more nuclear plants in different parts of the country.State owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) currently executes nuclear reactors …
State owned enterprises of India may finance India’s nuclear power plants. Read More »
The cost of Rooppur nuclear power plant is estimated at USD 12.65 billion. The Bangladeshi government will get 90% (USD 11.38 billion) from Russian government as a loan and rest will be invested by Bangladesh. The loan will be repaid in 28 years with a 10-year grace period. The Bangladeshi government has just released USD …
India and Russia are planning to strengthen their civil nuclear Partnership and likely to sign the agreement for building the fifth and sixth nuclear reactors at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) this autumn. According to Sergey Kiriyenko, Russia and India have already discussed and worked out on the agreement to build the fifth and sixth …
His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa paid an official visit to Moscow on September 5 to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the strong bilateral relations binding both countries. Both leaders discussed first key issues of Russian-Bahraini security cooperation, current developments in the Middle East and North Africa, primarily in the context of fighting international terrorism. Then Russia and …
What are the motives for the Middle East to go nuclear? One answer is the need to reduce the dependency on fossil fuel but also the access to this technology. Rosatom promotes the VVER 1200, not only as the latest Russian reactor, but also the safest third generation type. This type includes a large number …
The lack of domestic facilities and expertise in emerging countries does not let any alternative than sending the students in overseas program. In the case of Egypt, the government budgeted a cost of USD 2,500 per month/student. Turkey faces the same situation for Akkuyu project. The local universities are unable to perform any training for …
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A key piece of equipment developed by the CNNC– Passive hydrogen autocatalytic recombiners has been exported to overseas now and promoted the safety of Chinese nuclear power technology and significant equipment.
Iran is going to cooperate with Russia in order to build two Nuclear power plants and this is not the first cooperation. On November 2014 the two sides signed an agreement to build the second part of “Bushehr” nuclear power plant in addition to the expansion in the field of the safe use of the nuclear energy.
