Russian Premier Mikhail Mishustin is visiting China for the 30th regular meeting of the heads of government. TASS reports that the two signed a series of agreements during their meeting.
During the course of the meeting, Rosatom Director-General Alexey Likhachev announced that Moscow and Beijing plan to actively use fast-neutron reactors and closed nuclear fuel cycle technologies. “We must move on in this area to the next package of bilateral cooperation, which undoubtedly includes the development of Russian-designed nuclear power plants in China and joint work on the fourth generation of nuclear energy—this is closing the fuel cycle and more active use of industrial fast-neutron reactors,” Likhachev said.
While China is leading in the development of fusion reactors, Russia is working to build a fusion-fission reactor. In his own comments, China’s Premier Li Qiang said that Beijing is prepared to more closely align their development program with Moscow: “China is ready to consolidate the integration of development strategies with Russia, expand cooperation across the board and continuously develop Chinese-Russian relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation in the new era and progress along the path of modernization together.”
