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, announced this at the 2021 International Economic Forum, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"I believe that the future also belongs to nuclear energy, despite the fact that it hasn't yet been included in the European taxonomy ( of clean energy sources – ed. ). Nevertheless, about 10 countries, including us, have expressed disagreement with this. Nuclear power generation has the lowest carbon footprint – 6 grams of carbon equivalent per 1 kWh. Solar energy, on the other hand, has about 80 grams, and wind energy about 14 grams. I won't mention the figures for coal and oil; they are, of course, 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.
Russia to become leader in small nuclear power plant construction