Russian Nuclear Energy giants, Rosatom says it focuses on building mutually beneficial bonds with partner countries more than making profits.

According to the CEO of Rosatom in charge of Central and Southern Africa Dmitry Shornikov, unlike  other business firm that focuses on making profits from its operations, Rosatom’s overarching focus is on establishing partnerships that will be beneficial to both parties.
In an interview with Mr Shornikov he said;

 

Rosatom is a business and from any nuclear programme that we implement we stand to make a financial gain. This would generally be generated from manufacture of specialized equipment, construction and maintenance of the facility and fuel supplies. Having said this, we aim to build mutually beneficial partnerships that will last for decades to come.  Rosatom wants to provide its customers for the construction and operation of nuclear power plants with the most competitive, most effective, most efficient solutions, we don’t just want this, it’s a part of our global strategy. We aim to provide the most efficient solution to reduce the cost of producing one KWh of electricity.

Dmitry Shornikov


He explained instances where Rosatom has formed mutually beneficial partnerships with partner countries including Ghana over the years
ROSATOM already has a story of mutually-beneficial cooperation in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region. The company not only supplies enriched uranium to the only Nuclear Power plant on the continent but also provides educational and research support in nuclear science under similar co-operation agreements across the region, he daid. Mr Shornikov added that there are currently 7 Ghanaian students studying in Russia and there are 5 more destined to go to Russia in September this year.

Since 2010 Rosatom has been running a project on the staff training for partner countries.

The project is aimed at supporting the partner country in creating an integrated system for training qualified specialists for nuclear power industry, from highly professional construction, installation and operating staff to providing the most modern specialized university education and retraining of executives – both for nuclear power and national regulatory authorities in the nuclear sphere.

In 2010 a mere 46 foreign students specialized in nuclear power; by the end of 2014 their number reached 709 and they came from 11 countries.
Today more than 80 students from sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Africa and Zambia, study in Russia.