Igor Linge, Deputy Director of Nuclear Safety Institute

– It is exactly the time to modernize the economy

On July 22 President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev chaired a meeting of the Committee on Modernization and Technological Development of Economy. The meeting took place at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center-All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF). The Committee discussed the five key ways to modernize Russia’s economy: energy efficiency and energy saving and production of new types of fuel; nuclear technologies; space technologies (GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System)) and development of land infrastructure; medical technologies (diagnostic equipment and medicines); strategic information technologies (supercomputers and software).

I welcome this meeting. Nuclear energy deserves such a high attention. Today it is exactly the time to modernize the economy.

25% of the world market is very close to what we have: in power generation no, but in NPP construction and fuel, yes. Besides, one can grow not only broad-wise but also depth-ward. We can not only build new reactors but also maintain them – this is going to deep – while developing isotopes or nuclear medicine is going wide.