Russia’s civilian nuclear sector boasts 70+ years of world-firsts and accomplishments, and just shook things up again this week as President Putin announced the country’s plans to launch “the world’s first nuclear energy system with a closed fuel cycle.”
Obligatory reminder that USA have nuclear bomb ahead of USSR but USSR had nuclear energy plant ahead of USA. In other words, it’s not even unusual that west is lagging in such tech, they just love the bomb. China is ahead of them too.