Ouagadougou: Burkinabe Minister in charge of Energy Yacouba Zabré Gouba will soon sign in Sochi (Russia), with ROSATOM, the road map for the construction of a nuclear power plant in his country, learned the AIB on Monday.
The Minister of Energy, Mines and Quarries, Yacouba Zabré Gouba, at the head of a delegation, has been participating since the morning of Monday March 25, 2024 in Sochi, Russia, in the International Forum on Nuclear Energy ATOMEXPO 2024, indicates its communications department.
According to the same source, during his two-day stay, the minister will sign with the Director General of ROSATOM, Alexey Likhachev, the road map relating to the construction of a nuclear power plant in Burkina Faso.
Before the road map, Burkina Faso and the Federal Republic of Russia signed on October 13, 2023 in Moscow, a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
Earlier in July in Moscow, Burkinabe President Ibrahim Traoré told his Russian count
erpart Vladimir Putin of the importance for him of having, if possible, as soon as possible, a nuclear power plant, capable of covering the energy needs of the sub-region. -region.
Source: Burkina Information Agency