Rosatom ready to offer Togo solutions for energy and medicine

Rosatom is ready to offer Togo nuclear solutions in energy, healthcare and agriculture. The head of the state corporation said this in comments to the memorandum with Togo. The Russia-Africa Moscow Summit, where the parties signed the document, was held on October 28-29.

“For Togo, nuclear technologies can become a powerful stimulus for socio-economic development and improving the quality of life,” said Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Rosatom. The state corporation also intends to promote the training of specialists and the development of nuclear infrastructure.

The Togo government plans to create an energy hub for the entire region. The government intends to assign an important role to nuclear energy and expects to share the resources of the hub with neighboring states.

What projects are possible in the energy sector and beyond will be evaluated by the working groups provided for in the memorandum. Their tasks also include identifying steps to train specialists and form a positive attitude of the country’s residents to nuclear energy.

Among the areas of cooperation with Togo, Likhachev singled out floating power units. With three dozen countries in Africa, the state corporation is discussing a block with a capacity of 100 MW. It is based on two RITM-200M reactor units.

A specialized enterprise in Russia is responsible for working with nuclear fuel. It performs all operations, so the customer does not need a separate infrastructure for fuel.

Such a unit is suitable for supplying electricity to both residential areas and industrial areas on the coast. The floating plant can operate separately from the overall power grid.