On Vietnam’s “bamboo” diplomacy and opportunities for Russia in the Asia-Pacific region.
Amid the erosion of the old-world order and the emergence of new, competing power centers, the Asia-Pacific region has also entered a phase of transformation. For Russia, whose post-2022 pivot to the East has become ...
... with their fundamentally new approach to powering data centers, become a solution to this trilemma? We discussed this with Alexander Volgin, Project Director at Rosatom Energy Projects JSC.
How viable from a technological and economic perspective are SMRs (in particular, KLT-40S and RITM-200) as an energy source for energy-intensive facilities such as data centers in Russia and abroad? What scenarios are realistic in the next five to 10 years in terms of commercial and logistical efficiency?
Vladimir Likhachev, Elizaveta Lihacheva:
Nuclear Power and the Global South
From a technological and economic perspective,...
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of a nuclear platform within the group. Russia traditionally holds a strong position in training personnel for the nuclear power sector in the region.
The development and introduction of new types of nuclear reactors, including floating NPPs and SMRs—projects that Russia is actively working on—represent promising technological solutions for countries of the Global South. This opens up extra opportunities for Rosatom, as the company can offer cutting-edge equipment to its partners in the foreseeable future and ...