Overview

• Vladimir Putin arrived at VDNH for the Global Atomic Forum, held informal talks with foreign delegations in the Atom pavilion, and toured the Atom museum exhibit.
• His schedule includes bilateral meetings with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, as well as Myanmar’s acting president Min Aung Hlaing and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
• Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachyov said the state corporation’s foreign portfolio includes 30 large nuclear power units in nine countries plus a project for six small units in Uzbekistan.
• Putin said Russia is already building modular data centers at nuclear power plants to provide steady electricity for processing rapidly growing volumes of data.
• Referencing OECD estimates, Putin warned that global uranium resources could be exhausted by 2090 or even the 2060s, while Sergey Kirienko stressed that partnerships forged this week carry century-long consequences.