Interesting breakdown of nuclear power development in the Global South courtesy of Russia and China. It seems no one is interested in windmills and solar panels.
🚨☢️ Nuclear independence: Global South bypasses West with $115B+ deals
Global South nations are accelerating nuclear cooperation, deliberately bypassing traditional Western gatekeepers (NPT restrictions, NSG waivers, high-cost Western vendors).
$115B+ in nuclear deals—led by Russia (Rosatom) and China (CNNC) — is delivering clean baseload power, tech transfer, local manufacturing, and long-term fuel security.
Energy sovereignty is now becoming a South-South reality.
🇮🇳🇷🇺 India–Russia Kudankulam
▪️Over $30B, 6 GW mega-project in Tamil Nadu: Six Russian VVER-1000 reactors, with Units 1–2 already feeding the grid since 2013/16 and Units 3–6 under construction.
▪️Includes 70%+ % localisation and talks for Russian SMRs and floating reactors.
▪️Cornerstone of India’s 100 GW nuclear target by 2047.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh Rooppur NPP
▪️Russia builds two 1.2 GW VVER-1200 units ($12B Russian loan), India supplies equipment and training, China (CNNC) supplies turbines and instrumentation.
▪️First reactor scheduled for 2025—textbook Global South burden-sharing for a nation with zero prior nuclear experience.
🇪🇬 Egypt’s El Dabaa (4.8 GW)
▪️$25B Rosatom project with 85% Russian financing; four VVER-1200 reactors plus desalination plant.
▪️Fuel cycle training included - Egypt becomes North Africa’s nuclear hub.
🇵🇰🇨🇳 Pak–China Chashma + Karachi
▪️Four operational CNP-300s and two Hualong One (HPR-1000) reactors under construction (>3 GW total).
▪️Full financing, fuel, and training from Beijing —ensuring Pakistan’s energy and strategic depth.
📈 Emerging winners
🇹🇷 Turkey: Akkuyu 4.8 GW (Rosatom BOO model) 🇦🇷 Argentina: Atucha III 1.2 GW HPR-1000 (85% Chinese loan); 🇿🇦 South Africa: Russian uranium + joint fuel fabrication talks; ▪️$115B+ in reactor deals, zero NSG begging, zero technology denial. ▪️India localises 70 %, Bangladesh goes from zero to 2.4 GW in one decade; Egypt gets desalination thrown in for free. ▪️Russia & China delivered 6 GW to Global South.
▪️These deals share commonality, connectivity and partnership: generous financing (80–100% loans at low interest), decades-long fuel supply guarantees, 60–80% local content mandates, and genuine technology transfer.
While the West debates climate goals, the Global South is simply building — reactor by reactor — its own energy-sufficient future.
While Trump Siezes Venezuelan Crude, The Global South Goes Nuclear
by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine
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Interesting breakdown of nuclear power development in the Global South courtesy of Russia and China. It seems no one is interested in windmills and solar panels.
🚨☢️ Nuclear independence: Global South bypasses West with $115B+ deals
Global South nations are accelerating nuclear cooperation, deliberately bypassing traditional Western gatekeepers (NPT restrictions, NSG waivers, high-cost Western vendors).
$115B+ in nuclear deals—led by Russia (Rosatom) and China (CNNC) — is delivering clean baseload power, tech transfer, local manufacturing, and long-term fuel security.
Energy sovereignty is now becoming a South-South reality.
🇮🇳🇷🇺 India–Russia Kudankulam
▪️Over $30B, 6 GW mega-project in Tamil Nadu: Six Russian VVER-1000 reactors, with Units 1–2 already feeding the grid since 2013/16 and Units 3–6 under construction.
▪️Includes 70%+ % localisation and talks for Russian SMRs and floating reactors.
▪️Cornerstone of India’s 100 GW nuclear target by 2047.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh Rooppur NPP
▪️Russia builds two 1.2 GW VVER-1200 units ($12B Russian loan), India supplies equipment and training, China (CNNC) supplies turbines and instrumentation.
▪️First reactor scheduled for 2025—textbook Global South burden-sharing for a nation with zero prior nuclear experience.
🇪🇬 Egypt’s El Dabaa (4.8 GW)
▪️$25B Rosatom project with 85% Russian financing; four VVER-1200 reactors plus desalination plant.
▪️Fuel cycle training included - Egypt becomes North Africa’s nuclear hub.
🇵🇰🇨🇳 Pak–China Chashma + Karachi
▪️Four operational CNP-300s and two Hualong One (HPR-1000) reactors under construction (>3 GW total).
▪️Full financing, fuel, and training from Beijing —ensuring Pakistan’s energy and strategic depth.
📈 Emerging winners
🇹🇷 Turkey: Akkuyu 4.8 GW (Rosatom BOO model)
🇦🇷 Argentina: Atucha III 1.2 GW HPR-1000 (85% Chinese loan);
🇿🇦 South Africa: Russian uranium + joint fuel fabrication talks;
▪️$115B+ in reactor deals, zero NSG begging, zero technology denial.
▪️India localises 70 %, Bangladesh goes from zero to 2.4 GW in one decade;
Egypt gets desalination thrown in for free.
▪️Russia & China delivered 6 GW to Global South.
▪️These deals share commonality, connectivity and partnership: generous financing (80–100% loans at low interest), decades-long fuel supply guarantees, 60–80% local content mandates, and genuine technology transfer.
While the West debates climate goals, the Global South is simply building — reactor by reactor — its own energy-sufficient future.
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