During a working visit on March 2, 2023, Dmitry Medvedev visited the production site and department of power unit No. 4 of the Beloyarsk NPP with the BN-800 reactor, where they told him about the unique features of fast neutron reactors, their role in the formation of a closed nuclear fuel cycle and providing the energy security of the country in future.

Dmitry Medvedev also chaired a meeting on ensuring information security and technological independence of the critical information infrastructure of the nuclear industry and the country. It was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Alexander Shoitov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Vasily Shpak, General Director of Rosatom State Corporation Alexei Likhachev, General Director of State Corporation Roscosmos Yury Borisov, director of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control Vladimir Selin, scientific director of the National Center for Physics and Mathematics (NTsFM), academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev.

During the discussion, Dmitry Medvedev noted the experience of Rosatom in the sphere of digitalization, emphasizing that today this task is faced by all critical sectors of the Russian industry: defense industry, fuel and energy complex, space, transport, banking, government bodies and others. He also noted that Rosatom makes a great contribution to ensuring the technological independence of Russia and the development of critical information infrastructure, because it has all the necessary potential for this. Since 2019, Rosatom has been implementing an import substitution program for software, software and equipment.

Alexey Likhachev spoke about the development of digital technologies in the industry, the creation of sovereign software and hardware systems, applied solutions based on artificial intelligence, emphasizing the priority attention paid to information security issues: “Rosatom is implementing a unified digital strategy, the three main goals of which are the digitalization of internal processes and functions, development and launch of digital products on the market, participation of the state corporation in the development of the country's digital economy. Recent months have placed new accents, many new directions have appeared. Internal digitalization and our products are now viewed in terms of critical information infrastructure.”

Alexander Sergeev presented the flagship scientific projects of the NTsFM aimed at strengthening the technological sovereignty of the country, outlined the growing role of digital technologies in the economy, noting that their development will depend on the country's competitiveness in the world: “On the basis of the NTsFM, with the support of Rosatom, Russian scientists will be among the first laboratory of neuromorphic artificial intelligence. It will allow specialists to design analog computing systems for high-speed information processing and supercomputer simulation. Besides, we have plans to create quantum and photonic computers based on optical coprocessors with a performance that is several times higher than existing in the world.”

The participants of the meeting agreed to involve both public and private Russian companies and scientific organizations of the country with expertise in this area in solving the identified tasks. Rosatom, at the same time, will organize the processes of development, production, technical support and service of trusted software and hardware systems (HSS) for critical information infrastructure.

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The Beloyarsk NPP named after I. V. Kurchatov is the first nuclear power plant in the history of the country's nuclear power industry with fast neutron reactors. The BNPP is the flagship of the strategic development direction of the nuclear industry for the transition to a closed nuclear fuel cycle. At present, Beloyarsk NPP operates two power units - BN-600 and BN-800. These world's largest power units with fast neutron reactors are designed to significantly expand the fuel base of nuclear energy and minimize radioactive waste through the organization of a closed nuclear fuel cycle. In terms of reliability and safety, the "fast" reactor is among the best nuclear reactors in the world.

The National Center for Physics and Mathematics is being created on behalf of the President of Russia in Sarov (Nizhny Novgorod Region). It uses the experimental and computational base of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIIEF. A complex of research buildings, advanced laboratories and facilities of the midi-science and mega-science class is being created on the territory of the NCFM. The scientific cooperation of the NTsFM consists of more than 50 scientific organizations and high-tech companies from all over Russia. The founders of the NTsFM are the State Corporation Rosatom, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, RAS, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", JINR and RFNC-VNIIEF. The main goals of the National Center are to obtain new world-class scientific results, train highly qualified scientists, educate new scientific and technological leaders, strengthen the personnel potential of Rosatom State Corporation enterprises and key scientific organizations in Russia, and increase the attractiveness of Russian science for young scientists.

Energy is the basis for the progressive social and economic development of the country, the supply of industry and citizens. Russia continues to modernize its energy complex, including nuclear power. This work is done taking into account modern trends in digitalization and the replacement of imported equipment. The share of low-carbon power generation in the Russian energy sector is already about 40%. In the future, taking into account the growth in the share of nuclear generation, it will only grow.