Rosatom suggests India join research reactor project - official

NEW DELHI, October 21. /TASS/. The Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation (Rosatom) has offered Indian nuclear energy experts to take part in the International Research Center project. The center is created on the basis of a fast neutron reactor in the city of Dimitrovgrad (Russia’s Volga region), head of Rosatom’s Innovation Department, Alexander Zagornov, told TASS on Friday. "Rosatom proposed that its Indian colleagues take part in the work of the International Research Center whose basis will be the world’s most powerful multi-purpose research high-speed neutron reactor. The construction of the complex is currently underway in the Dimitrovgrad Research Institute for Nuclear Reactors in the Ulyanovsk region," said Zagornov who is taking part in the India Nuclear Energy annual forum. He noted that there is a shortage of large state-of-the-art research reactors, which are indispensable for the development of the promising fourth-generation reactors. "Rosatom intends to set up a modern research platform on the basis of a fast neutron reactor not only for itself. This project is open to mutually beneficial cooperation with all parties concerned. We are planning to establish an International Research Center on the basis of a high-speed neutron reactor and invite Indian experts to take part in it," Zagornov added. Rosatom earlier opened a regional center in India’s Mumbai, which will oversee the projects to build nuclear power stations in India and Bangladesh and help boost the corporation’s activities across the region. A network of Rosatom’s regional centers is established by Rusatom International Network, which is part of the corporation. Such centers are currently operating in North America, Latin America, eastern Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Western, Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. Read more