Cooperation. The International Youth Festival 2026, with Rosatom as the general partner, has concluded in Yekaterinburg. The event brought together 10,000 young leaders from 191 countries. The Russian nuclear corporation hosted dozens of business, scientific, and cultural events. Rosatom’s international youth delegation included nearly 300 members, while the junior track brought together 79 school students from 28 countries. The festival also served as the venue to announce the results of three international initiatives. A total of 2,500 candidates competed for a spot on the Icebreaker of Knowledge 2027 expedition; four experts from Spain, India, Russia, and North Macedonia will travel to the North Pole aboard the 50 Let Pobedy nuclear icebreaker in 2027. The first six participants of the Atom 2050 initiative from Brazil, Indonesia, Lebanon, Russia, and Uzbekistan were also announced. Together with researchers and engineers, this team of 100 young professionals will develop scenarios for the advancement of nuclear and related technologies through 2050. In the final of Global HackAtom, over 80 students from 15 countries developed projects for the cities of the future.

Construction sites. Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev visited the Akkuyu NPP construction site in Türkiye, where he received a briefing on the project’s status. The equipment at Unit 1 is progressively transitioning to operate as a single, integrated system. Following the completion of the first phase of hydraulic testing, the main coolant pumps were started up. “Our task is to complete this phase as quickly as possible, move on to the licensing stage, obtain the operating license, and accordingly, begin commissioning operations before the end of the year. It is clear that the main part of our work is taking place right here, in the control room of the power unit. And it is already evident that this is the control room of an operating plant, not one under construction,” Alexey Likhachev said. The main control room is the nerve center of the power unit. At the current stage of pre-commissioning, operating personnel are already monitoring the performance of the unit’s main engineering systems. Akkuyu is Türkiye’s first nuclear power plant; it will have four power units with Generation III+ VVER reactors, each having a capacity of 1,200 MW.

Medicine. Rosatom showcased its nuclear medicine developments at the 9th FOR LIFE International Forum on Oncology and Radiotherapy in Moscow. Scientists and experts from the Russian nuclear corporation presented equipment for FLASH radiotherapy, a technique that delivers a full therapeutic dose of ionizing radiation to a tumor in an extremely short time. This approach is designed to maintain treatment efficacy while minimizing damage to healthy tissues. Achieving this requires high-power sources and precision control systems for irradiation parameters. Rosatom is developing a full-cycle nuclear medicine ecosystem, spanning isotope production, radiopharmaceuticals, and diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. Brachyum high-dose radiation therapy units are already in use at Russian hospitals, while the construction of a GMP-compliant radiopharmaceutical factory is nearing completion in the Kaluga Region. The forum also featured the launch of an educational initiative for physicians on the use of samarium-153 for treating bone metastases. Both the drug and the isotope used in its production are manufactured by Rosatom’s science division.