Leonid Bolshov, Director of Nuclear Safety Institute, professor

– Launch of the 1st and 2nd units of Tianwan NPP is a big victory of our nuclear power engineers

Everybody knows what crisis we have gone through and how hard it was to start a new project under new conditions. It is our first commercial projects and it will certainly pave the way for our technologies into the world market, including China, Bulgaria and other countries.

The practice shows that even world renowned Areva has problems with finishing its projects in time.

Of course, in some spheres foreign corporations are stronger. But we have unique projects – many of them have been examined by Russian and Chinese experts and approved by IAEA. One of them is the so-called trap for molten reactor core. This project has no analogues in the world.

But we must not relax. The sky is the limit. The world markets are not an easy walk. We are going to face very tough rivalry. And victories like that in China give us hope for success.