Russia will become a leader in the construction of small nuclear power plants
Russia intends to become a leader in the production of not only large, but also small nuclear power units.
Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, stated this at the International Economic Forum 2021, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I believe that the future, among other things, lies with nuclear energy, despite the fact that it has not yet been included in the European taxonomy (clean energy sources – ed.). However, about 10 countries, including us, expressed disagreement with this. Electricity generation from nuclear sources has the lowest carbon footprint - 6 g carbon equivalent per 1 kWh. While solar energy is about 80 g, and wind energy is about 14 g. I will not give the figure for coal and oil; of course, it is higher.
Therefore, nuclear energy is also the future. Security technologies are evolving.
The new direction that Russia will now focus on is the development of small-scale nuclear generation. We are leaders in the development of large units of 100-1200 MW, and today we set ourselves the goal of becoming world leaders in the production of nuclear energy in small units of 5 megawatts.
This opens up completely new opportunities for the use of nuclear energy in general and, in principle, opens up new prospects. We are working on closed-cycle technologies in nuclear energy and new fuel cells. I think this will also be a source of clean, carbon-free technologies, clean energy generation,” Novak said.
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