Yuri Barmakov, Director of All-Russian Research Institute of Automatics

— Russian policy for nuclear power sector development should be based on native technologies

Concerning our further prospects in China, I would like to note that, if we change our «technical policy,» we will be able to further promote our reactors in that country. In the framework of the strategy we are presently developing, particularly, the NPP-2006 project, we should form a policy that will be attractive for all countries, including China. This policy should be based on Russian technologies and supplies and should be carried out by our specialists. Such a policy will make us competitive, while a mixed ideology will hardly do. Today, the European Community is facing growing oil and gas problems and is quickly developing its nuclear power engineering. At some point, they may appear with their own independent policy and it will then be very hard for us to integrate with them. That’s why we can compete with them only if we have our own national, Russian technical, technological or any other policy.

The construction and launch of any NPP is certainly a grandiose victory. It was a real triumph for us to carry the project through despite problems and difficulties. And it was a very important experience for us.