Nuclear Renaissance In Russia?
OCT 31, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021622
Forbes : Russia, the world’s second nuclear power, has long had an active nuclear-energy industry, including exporting reactors to countries such as India and Iran. Yet until recently, the Kremlin devoted far less attention to nuclear energy than to the country’s massive and profitable oil and natural-gas industries. In 2005, President Vladimir Putin indicated his interest in the sector by appointing former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko to head Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom).
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