And today in Russia, in the federal territory of Syria, the international forum ATOMEXPO-2024 began. The thirteenth consecutive year traditionally combines a business conference and an extensive exhibition program.
On the eve of the start of the forum, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar, who was among the forum participants, openly admitted that they were trying to ruin the works of the Russian-Turkish project for the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant. . . In an interview with the Turkish television channel TRT Haber, he said that since the 1950s Turkey has been striving to be a leader in energy. And now, under the leadership of President Erdogan, “he has taken the most important steps in the field of nuclear energy” (translated by TASS). 30 thousand people work in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project, said the minister. And he added: “We want to put the first reactor into operation this year,” but “numerous direct, overt and covert measures are being taken to prevent the construction of this plant. We continue to act decisively.”
And Türkiye is not alone in this. “It is in our common interest to prevent nuclear energy from becoming hostage to geopolitical conflicts, hypocrisy and ideological disputes,” news agencies quote the words of Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, who is not afraid to call a spade a spade. , international professional and scientific cooperation in “The nuclear sector still exists. Several American, German, French, Swedish, Swiss and even Austrian subcontractors are collaborating with Russian builders on the expansion project of our nuclear power plant.”
At the ATOMEXPO-2024 forum, which brought together – despite the doubts of skeptics – more than 3,500 experts, specialists and guests from 70 countries, similar assessments and judgments sound like a refrain.
Hungary, no matter how much pressure is exerted on it from different sides, will not give up mutually beneficial cooperation with Russia and the joint project to expand the Paks nuclear power plant, where the construction of two new power units with Russian VVER reactors is planned. 1200. It is planned and has already begun.
And Russia has been and will be a key participant in the international ITER project to build an experimental thermonuclear reactor at a site near the Cadarache center in France. The politically motivated decision of the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) governing council to exclude Russian scientists from joint work on the Large Hadron Collider is a decision contrary to science; They believe in the international ITER Council and they themselves distance themselves from such a decision.
Today and tomorrow at ATOMEXPO there will be a substantive dialogue on these and many other pressing issues.
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In 2022, the twelfth international forum “ATOMEXPO” was held under the motto “Atomic Spring: creating a sustainable future”.
More than 3,000 specialists and guests from Russia, as well as 65 countries near and far abroad, were represented. The key theme of this forum is “Clean Energy: Creating the Future Together”. It is planned to discuss the role of nuclear energy in national strategies to combat climate change. In addition to the plenary session, the program includes round tables and discussion panels on eight thematic axes: “Industry”, “Energy”, “Logistics”, “Ecology”, “Digitalization”, “Health”, “Science” and “Education”. ”. ”. Important business meetings and partnership agreements are expected to be held at the forum.
During the entire Atomexpo period, more than 49 thousand delegates and guests from 89 countries visited, more than 55 thousand agreements were signed for a total value of more than 63 billion dollars.
