Russian Nuclear Energy in the Wake of Fukushima

Author(s): Peter Rutland
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Aglaya Snetkov, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 113
Pages: 18-20
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute of History, University of Basel
Publication Year: 2012

Russia has staked its future as an energy producer and high tech exporter on nuclear energy technology. The accident last year in Fukushima did not change these plans, though rising supplies of cheap natural gas present a viable competitor.

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