MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. Revenues of Rosatom from the projects abroad totaled $18 bln in 2024, which includes approximately 20% (about $4 billion) coming from unfriendly countries, General Director of the state nuclear corporation Alexey Likhachev said.
"Strictly speaking, we have barely left the Western market, while the volume and share of friendly countries [among the corporation’s partners] is growing," he said in the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament.
As the head of Rosatom noted, a large number of sanctions have been imposed against the Russian nuclear industry, "about 150 of our enterprises are on the toughest sanctions lists," but all these sanctions "in no way stop development."
According to him, the only country that defiantly refused to cooperate with Rosatom was Finland in the Hanhikivi NPP project.
"We are now in court. They must pay and compensate us for the losses that were incurred during the first stage of construction and creation of the project. All other countries, despite the sanctions pressure, continue to cooperate with us in one way or another. It is clear that a number of negotiations are taking place in a non-public format, including with European countries," he said.
The head of Rosatom noted that "we will be present in the European market one way or another, cooperate in the supply of uranium to the United States, unless another decision is made."
"But the volumes of supplies to friendly countries will grow, increasing both in absolute value and in percentage terms. We offer the most competitive products on the foreign market. Our expertise is always complex. Before coming to build a plant, we actually carry out all the activities to create a nuclear industry in the country,".