Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is planning to build a large cluster of nuclear power industrial facilities in Russia’s Far East. “We will not just come here, to the Far East. We will actually create a large nuclear cluster here,” Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) on Sept. 4.
Rosatom is in charge of Russia’s Arctic development program, because nuclear energy is at the center of Russia’s Arctic development policy. Rosatom is in the process of completing a fleet of six of the world’s largest icebreakers, four of which are currently in operation. They have laid the keel for the first of an even larger and more powerful icebreaker. Rosatom is also building a small modular reactor at one of the Arctic settlements, while it has deployed the world’s first floating nuclear power plant also in the Arctic regions.
