ROSATOM NEWSLETTER

#232August 2020

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Royal Cyclotron

In July, Rosatom’s Efremov Research Institute shipped 120 tonnes of equipment for a cyclotron radiochemistry facility in Thailand. It will be used to fabricate medical isotopes and conduct research.

Russia and Norway Join Efforts to Clean Up Arctic

Improving nuclear and radiation safety in Northwest Russia was a key topic at the 23rd meeting of the Joint Norwegian-Russian Commission on Environmental Protection. Representatives of Rosatom reported on the…

Mining Future Belongs to VNIPIpromtechnologii

Next year VNIPIpromtechnologii will celebrate its 70th anniversary. Its name is roughly translated from Russian as the Leading Engineering and Research Institute of Industrial Technology. It used to engineer uranium…

Trends

Environmentalists Stand Up for Nuclear

Public organizations and activists from different countries join the ranks of the nuclear energy advocates. Certain anti-nuclear activists even become pro-nuclear activists.

Middle East

Strontium Isotopes Tell the Hyksos Story

Egypt’s El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant has become a pilot sustainable development project for Rosatom’s engineering division. The project will focus on sustainable supplies and sustainable communications.

Bangladesh

Sheikh’s Dream Rooppur

Kamrul Ahsan, the Bangladeshi Ambassador to Russia, paid a visit to Rosatom’s subsidiaries ZiO-Podolsk and Rusatom Automated Control Systems (RASU) to catch himself up on the progress in the production…

Turkey

Knowledge is Power

CEO of Akkuyu Nükleer Anastasia Zoteeva revealed the details about the construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant. Apart from the construction, Rosatom is running educational programs for Turkish employees.