Russia will help China to overtake the United States at the installed capacity of nuclear power plants. This was announced by Rosatom, the General Director of the Russian State Corporation, Alexei Likhachev.
“China has grandiose plans for the development of atomic energy. The task of catching up and overtake the United States of America in the established capacity, which means – to reach a capacity of more than 100 gigavatts, said. Likhachev.
He noted that Russia will help China to achieve this goal, and also reminded of the construction of four reactors with a capacity of more than 1 GW.
according to him, Russia and China plan to develop fourth -generation nuclear technologies together, suggesting multiple use of the enriched uranium product in reactors of various profiles – both water -water and fast Neutrons.
“I think not for decades, but for centuries we can predict cooperation both in breadth and deep,” the head of Rosatom summarized.
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