Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom has good prospects for cooperation with African countries, Brazil and China, the Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev told reporters.
Russia's nuclear fuel cycle enterprises are self-sufficient and continue to strengthen their position outside the EU and North America, he explained.
"Already today, we see good prospects for increased cooperation with companies and countries such as China, Brazil and African states, which rely on nuclear power as a sustainable source of clean energy and share a common approach to ensuring supplies of uranium products on predictable terms and in the interests of end users," Likhachev noted.
Nowadays, according to him, Russia is the undisputed leader of the global nuclear market in many areas, building the most nuclear power plants abroad and is among the top 3 in all conversions of the nuclear fuel cycle and uranium mining.
"If we talk about the export of nuclear technologies, our competitors are already weaker. Of the 26 export nuclear power units under construction in the world, 22 are being built according to our designs. That is more than 80% of the market. This is a niche that we have already occupied, and no one will be able to implement these projects in our place," the Rosatom head concluded.
One of Rosatom's most high-profile projects in Africa is the construction of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt. At the end of January, the Russian corporation started the construction of the fourth unit of the NPP. The inauguration was launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi via video conference.
In October, Rosatom signed a memorandum with the government of Burkina Faso on the construction of a nuclear power plant. In addition, Rosatom is strengthening cooperation with other African countries, including Mali, Zimbabwe and Burundi, with which the company has signed agreements on cooperation in the field of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Earlier, at the Second Russia-Africa Summit, Rosatom proposed the creation of a nuclear power fleet for Africa to supply the continent with electricity.