How Russia Controls the World's Nuclear Energy

Russia is the largest nuclear energy player in the world. But why is that? This video answers how Russia maintains control through business, politics, and money.

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Chapters
00:00 Rosatom Dominance
01:51 Nuclear Power in Russia
03:33 One-Stop Shopping
06:07 Easy Financing
09:56 Politics
12:53 Fuel Control
14:47 War
16:28 Global Changes

[MBTIinRealLife]

Surprisingly no anti Russian bias in this one. Thanks.

[jgr]

it's important to mention that Rosatom is NOT among the companies that are under Western sanctions to Russia.

[Aka-rpgp]

As a Bangladeshi we are really excited for our first nuclear power plant. Thanks to Rosatom we are about achieve this huge milestone.

[saucy]

Saying Rosatom is a huge is an understatement. What they make, what they control is absolutely massive. From satellites to Fusion Energy Development. Rosatom does it all.

[timrutkevich]

When it comes to uranium enrichment ROSATOM is 50 years ahead of any American corporation. Americans still use extremely inefficient diffusive method, while ROSATOM already deploy 30+generation centrifuges.

[victoriaporozova]

As a Russian theoretical physicist with my little brother getting nuclear physics Master degree, I must thank you for this truthful information. Subscribed!

[EmShF]

Great video. And now think about it, a company like ROSATOM has a capitalization much smaller than Apple or Tesla. That is, a company with hundreds of thousands of employees developing the most complex designs is rated lower than gadget companies. In such a world we live that serious and useful things for all mankind are valued lower than the hyped bubbles of consumer products: cars, phones, clothes, etc.

[boromirok]

Rosatom is 10-20 years ahead of its competitors in terms of technology. They can enrich Uranium for the 235th isotope from the waste left by other companies. extract much more from natural uranium than all the others. Rosatom has the only fast neutron reactors on the planet, where more fuel is produced than is loaded. Rosatom is building the world's first reactor where the entire fuel cycle will be closed within one nuclear power plant. Rosatom has the only floating nuclear power plants on the planet, which, like a nuclear battery, it installed for 10 years, and when it worked out, it was replaced.

[kalashnikov_z]

Thanks to Russia and Rosatom for building our first Nuclear Power Plant on Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇷🇺🥰

[slavinojunepri]

This is the clearest and most unbiased presentation I have found on Rosatom so far. Keep up the good work!

[Hitagara]

"So what do you think will Russia continue to lead the rest of the nuclear industry or will new designs and Technology shift the balance of power."

In terms of nuclear energy new designs and Technology is also in Russia.


Russia is the only country in the world that successfully operates industrial fast neutron reactors BN-600 and BN-800. And at the moment, the first serial industrial reactor BN-1200 is being prepared for construction.

All that Western countries are capable of is the use of methods of unfair competition - sanctions, restrictions, political and economic pressure on Russia itself or its current or potential partners. For this it is not shameful to ignite several wars on the border with Russia, if possible. The only problem is that the sense of one's own exclusivity does not make it clear that Russia can give a tough reaction to such discrimination.

[romanteslya]

West was first who create nuclar bomb and use it, USSR(Russia) first who invented energy from this for people. See the difference.

[save_theworld]

I thought Russia is just a gas station? According to biden

[hellohi]

Russia is a very giving country. Helps others honestly. Can be trusted by its customers to be unselfish.

[AleksLazar]

Literally the most powerful corporation in the world. The author didn’t mention how they have vertically integrated education and talent development basically from preschool age and up, they are a state within a state with nuclear cities, nuclear youth camps, skills competitions. They want all the smartest kids in Russian to work for them. They also got into nuclear and non nuclear polluted site cleanup business the Rus govt only trusts them with that

[Yngvarr]

Rosatom also does engineering software, chip design, composites, LNG liquefaction technology

[TheMohisa]

Rossatom will thrive in Asian and African markets.

[mohammadmansur]

Я как житель Дагестана, Российской Федерации могу сказать следующее.
Санкции практически не повлияли на Россию. Что пострадала от санкций это автомобилистроение . До 2022 года в России в основном были Европейские, Японские, Корейские и Американские заводы . Российские АвтоВАЗ, КамАз, ГАЗ и Урал . Китайские товарищи в этом нам помогают. Китайские автомобили очень хорошие . До санкций не знал, что у Китая крутые автомобили, которые превосходят некоторые западные бренды. Китайские бренды уже заняли 40% нашего рынка . В России хорошо продавались Рено, Киа, Хендай, Вольсваген, Шкода. Они по своей вине потеряли этот рынок.
У нас сейчас хорошие отношения с Ираном очень много товаров идут из Ирана . Фрукты Иранские очень сочные и вкусные . Раньше возили из Европы Италия, Испания, Португалия, Греция, Болгария.
Сейчас из Ирана, Турции, Узбекистан, Туркменистан, Египет, Китай, Вьетнам. И российские товары полно в магазинах. Раньше такого не было . Так ваши санкции можете засунуть себе в одно место.

[kirilhoholko]

Wait, but BBC told me Russian soldiers don't even know what a toilet is...

[raskolnikov]

I personally come from such atomic town like you describe. VISAGINAS in Lithuania was initiated to build and accommodate gigantic power plant. But in order to join EU, sadly Lithuania gave up its healthy nuclear and accepted EU money to shut it down... Since then things got worse... Much worse in Visaginas town...