– Many projects presented at the Forum are better than their foreign analogues

Such forums are a good opportunity for one to establish direct contacts with the colleagues that may help him to promote his products. Particularly, during the past forum we found producers of chemical analysis systems for one of our three projects. There are already two companies from other industries who are interested in our project: one wants to know what is inside his pipes (oil, water, sand), the other wants to know the quality of his metal.

Such forums reveal lots of promising future-oriented projects. For example, during the previous forum we presented a new mobile NPP – you can carry it by train and put it wherever you want. And what is more important: you spend just one year on its construction instead of seven and can produce several such plants a year instead of one, at best. This is exactly what our nuclear power sector needs: they are planning to build two plants a year – so, this technology can help them.

The key goal of the past forum was to show projects that may interest consumers from other industries. But after visiting the forum Mr. Kiriyenko said that many of the projects might serve our industry as well.

I think it is hard to say how much money exactly we will earn from exporting nuclear innovations to other industries but already today I can say that many of the projects are not worse and are even better than their foreign analogues.

Today, our management perfectly understand that they will not be able to promote innovations without state support. I mean venture funds (with budgetary money) that will cover 49% of the commercialization expenses (with 51% to be paid by the consumer). There is one more interesting idea: starting from next year all Rosatom institutes will allocate 5% of their money for promoting innovations.