28.05.2024, Moscow.
The chairman of India’s Atomic Energy Commission Ajit Kumar Mohanty visited the experimental and demonstration power facility with the generation IV reactor BREST-OD-300, Rosatom’s press service wrote on May 25.
Russia is the world leader in the development of fourth-generation nuclear power plants. One of the key characteristics of such facilities is a closed production cycle, which avoids the appearance of large amounts of nuclear waste.
Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachyov noted that the BREST-OD-300 project is also interesting to Mohanty from a scientific point of view, as he is a major specialist in fundamental physics.
“I am almost certain that Indian partners will join the project in one form or another,” Likhachyov said.
Likhachyov mentioned the Proryv project, under which Rosatom is implementing the creation of fourth-generation nuclear power plants. Russia is the first in the world to realize it not in theory, not in 3D models, but “on the ground.” Negotiations are currently underway with India on its joining the project in one form or another. Rosatom, according to Likhachyov, is ready for various options of cooperation with India.
“These include serial construction of Russian-designed high-capacity power units at the new site, implementation of small-scale generation projects in land-based and floating designs, fuel cycle, and non-energy application of nuclear technologies,” Mohanty said.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
