On March 11, Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Rosatom State Corporation, visited the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, where he delivered a lecture on "Rosatom: Energy and Technologies of the Future." About 400 students and students of the MEPhI University lyceums gathered in the university's auditorium, as well as almost a thousand employees and students from nonresident and foreign branches of the university who watched the lecture via video link.

In the lecture, the head of the state corporation touched upon the main stages of the development of atomic science and energy, from the discovery of radioactivity by Antoine Becquerel to the Soviet "atomic project".

Alexey Likhachev paid special attention to the variety of high-tech activities that Rosatom unites today: it is not only nuclear energy (about 20% of electricity generated in Russia), it is also nuclear medicine, the development of the Northern Sea Route, composite materials, new developments in information and quantum technologies, and much more. Alexey Likhachev stressed that the share of nuclear energy in Russia's energy mix will grow, including through new-generation reactors (primarily fast neutron reactors), and possibly through thermonuclear energy in the future.

Answering the students' questions, the CEO of Rosatom spoke about the prospects of young people working at the state corporation's enterprises and on its foreign projects, emphasizing that working abroad requires a good knowledge of English.