The Russian Far East may turn into an international atomic hub
The Russian Far East has not only enormous development potential, but also a host of problems associated with underdeveloped infrastructure and the regular outflow of population to Central Russia. The program to create the Territories of Advanced Economic Development, launched in 2015, was called upon to comprehensively solve these problems. It provided the project participants with special conditions for the growth of production not related to the extraction of raw materials.
Advanced development territories (hereinafter referred to as the TOP) were created in Primorye, Khabarovsk Territory, Sakhalin and Amur Regions. However, for the time being, the TOP for some reasons has not reached the desired indicators. These include, for example, inept regulation and management, as well as underdeveloped infrastructure. Nevertheless, the TORs themselves, as an instrument of development, are very promising. Therefore, a number of Russian experts took the initiative to create a “Nuclear Energy Technology Complex” in the Far East, which could become a serious driver of the region’s economic growth, as well as cooperation with neighboring countries from the Asia-Pacific region.
As part of a new concept for the development of the Russian Far East on the border with China in the Amur Region, it is proposed to build a new nuclear power plant with two BN-1200 fast neutron reactors. The electricity produced by this “Far Eastern NPP” can go to meet the needs of Russian industrial enterprises created in the ASEZ, as well as for export to China. Neighboring China could well act as a co-investor in the construction of a new Russian nuclear power plant. The source of energy for it can be plutonium from spent fuel of both domestic and foreign nuclear power plants, including Chinese.
In the energy development program of the Far East, experts propose the creation of an atomic-hydrogen chemicaltechnological a cluster located on Sakhalin Island or even on the Kuril Islands. This cluster will be able to process natural gas into high-value products and chemical products. China, South Korea, Japan, India, and the Russian Federation itself need industrial chemistry products.
Russian economists propose to supply electricity to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, which are mainly island-based, creating a cluster of low-power nuclear plants. Such an energy cluster can be based on the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant and others based on modern Russian technologies.
It became known that the structure of Rosatom announced a competition to develop the concept of the “International Center“ Nuclear Energy and Technology Complex in the Far East. ”If this program is successfully implemented, the eastern part of the Russian Federation will become a real international energy hub and an advanced center for economic development.
Advanced development territories (hereinafter referred to as the TOP) were created in Primorye, Khabarovsk Territory, Sakhalin and Amur Regions. However, for the time being, the TOP for some reasons has not reached the desired indicators. These include, for example, inept regulation and management, as well as underdeveloped infrastructure. Nevertheless, the TORs themselves, as an instrument of development, are very promising. Therefore, a number of Russian experts took the initiative to create a “Nuclear Energy Technology Complex” in the Far East, which could become a serious driver of the region’s economic growth, as well as cooperation with neighboring countries from the Asia-Pacific region.
As part of a new concept for the development of the Russian Far East on the border with China in the Amur Region, it is proposed to build a new nuclear power plant with two BN-1200 fast neutron reactors. The electricity produced by this “Far Eastern NPP” can go to meet the needs of Russian industrial enterprises created in the ASEZ, as well as for export to China. Neighboring China could well act as a co-investor in the construction of a new Russian nuclear power plant. The source of energy for it can be plutonium from spent fuel of both domestic and foreign nuclear power plants, including Chinese.
In the energy development program of the Far East, experts propose the creation of an atomic-hydrogen chemicaltechnological a cluster located on Sakhalin Island or even on the Kuril Islands. This cluster will be able to process natural gas into high-value products and chemical products. China, South Korea, Japan, India, and the Russian Federation itself need industrial chemistry products.
Russian economists propose to supply electricity to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, which are mainly island-based, creating a cluster of low-power nuclear plants. Such an energy cluster can be based on the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant and others based on modern Russian technologies.
It became known that the structure of Rosatom announced a competition to develop the concept of the “International Center“ Nuclear Energy and Technology Complex in the Far East. ”If this program is successfully implemented, the eastern part of the Russian Federation will become a real international energy hub and an advanced center for economic development.
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