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Myanmar inaugurates Russia-led nuclear power information center

Strife-torn nation looks to partner with Rosatom to build, operate reactor

Myanmar Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. The nation's leader recently met with Alexey Evgenievich Likhachev, director general of Russian State Atomic Energy Corp. (Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS)

BANGKOK (AP) -- Myanmar's military-led government, working with Russia's state atomic energy company, has inaugurated a nuclear power information center as a step toward developing atomic power to fill energy shortages in the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation.

Myanmar state media reported on Tuesday that the head of the military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, met with Alexey Evgenievich Likhachev, director general of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corp., or Rosatom.

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