The Russian Federation is strengthening its influence in the world nuclear energy – Financial Times – World

Russia is involved in the construction of more than a third of new reactors worldwide.

The special representative of the Kremlin for international cooperation in the field of sustainable development, Boris Titov, said that Russia is building more than 10 nuclear power units in countries such as China, Iran and Turkey. In meeting growing global energy demand driven by artificial intelligence and emerging markets, Moscow wants to increase its influence as “one of the largest builders of new nuclear plants in the world”, especially in light of tough sanctions on the oil and gas sector imposed after the invasion of Ukraine.

The Financial Times writes about it.

Russia is also building nuclear power plants in Bangladesh, Egypt and India. And according to an article published in 2023 in the journal Nature Energy by the Norwegian Institute of International Relations, “Russia's foreign nuclear portfolio, which…