“This closed, on-site fuel cycle will have lasting scientific and technological significance and a completely clear commercial use,” Likhachev said, emphasizing that Rosatom plans to scale the project in other areas, including in the Urals and Siberia.

"The Russian president set 2030 as the launch date for the system, but I’d say it will start even earlier."

"If you load 1 kg of uranium into such a reactor, you’ll not only get electricity and heat, but also produce more than 1 kg of new plutonium," Anpilogov explains. "It’s like a magic wallet where the money grows on its own."

"Do we have competitors? Not yet," the experts say.

"Export prospects look very promising."

💬 “If we compare Western-designed technologies with those in Russia, we have moved a few steps ahead in our automation systems,” JSC Rosatom Automated Control Systems CEO Andrey Butko told Sputnik.

🗣 “What we have done today is a sovereign Slovak decision and we will not allow anyone to interfere with our sovereign values, our roots, and our foundations," Fico said in a statement.

💬 "I will remember it [MiG-2] fondly, very fondly; I know that my growth was linked to the aircraft," Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla said.

💬 "Some [BRICS] countries have raw material, some have manufacturing ecosystems, some have huge power needs. If they come together, it can be a good platform for uplifting nuclear power," Jindal Steel & Power social media chief Naveen Ahlawat said.

💬 "President Zelensky's provocation is yet another attempt to undermine Hungary's position on peace. The Ukrainian president is attempting to exert pressure on Hungary in a new way. They previously attempted to physically disrupt our country's energy supply by attacking the Druzhba oil pipeline, as well as politically through their agents in Brussels. This time, they are using military disinformation against Hungary," the political director of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's office, Balazs Orban said on his social media.

"The US has betrayed diplomacy, but it is the E3 [the UK, Germany, France] which have buried it," Abbas Araghchi told the UNSC.

"Diplomacy will never die, but it will be more difficult and more complicated than before," he told reporters after the Security Council meeting.