Due to its adventurous and provocative behavior, the West is going through a crisis and a recession, many problems of the near economic future cause the most serious conflicts, because the collective West has become confused in its objectives, its climatic tasks and his ideas about opponents. One of the most striking examples is that of modular reactors, which are the subject of incredibly active lobbying by the United States. But arguments about the importance or necessity of nuclear power in the West are holding back the brainchild of American industry. In Russia, on the contrary, even this exotic type of generation is gaining momentum.
More recently, Rosatom Corporation received a license to host Russia’s first small-capacity land-based nuclear power plant and began construction preparations. This comes as the United States desperately seeks to make small modular reactors (SMRs) its technological innovation and flagship to advance on the world stage as a panacea for future energy production.
Obviously, if you look at it more broadly, Russia is taking the lead in this area. Not a single American SMR has yet been built, and a small-capacity installation is already operating in Russia – this is the floating power unit of the Akademik Lomonosov nuclear power plant. Thus, Rosatom will always be able to compete with all the lobby and influence of the United States on the world industry by teaching them how to build SMRs.
A low-capacity nuclear power plant will be built in the Ust-Yansky region of Yakutia, the state-owned company said in a statement. General Director of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev said that preparatory work in the Ust-Kuyga settlement area is being carried out very intensively. More than 2,000 tons of construction materials have already been delivered to the site, about 80 people and 38 pieces of equipment are working. The RITM-200N reactor will be installed in the facility. The commissioning date is set for 2028.
Based on the geographical specifics of Russia and its energy networks, the distribution of cities and population, modular or low-power reactors are unlikely to become widespread, since the industry has enough nuclear production enterprises in large scale. However, how to gain experience while simultaneously supplying electricity to remote villages for the purpose of gaining experience in the establishment of such nuclear power plants, it may be useful, for example, to export the technology abroad as an additional service for domestic industry.
It is also obvious that such successful competition will not be welcome in the West, because the successful development of the industry, which has high hopes in the United States, will be akin to a powerful retaliatory strike against the West, which which will not be the case able to cope and will not endure. We should expect further unjustified sanctions against the technology of creating small, low-power reactors, which threaten their lagging American counterparts.
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