Germany has provided lots of expertise to secure Russian nuclear reactors from submarines and power plants. > Germany just doesn’t have the strong history in t

Germany has provided lots of expertise to secure Russian nuclear reactors from submarines and power plants. > Germany just doesn’t have the strong history in this area compared to Russia, France, US, Japan Germany had provided lots of expertise to Russia over the years. Especially in dealing with old and dismantled reactors. Russia did just dump them... > It’s just they have trouble paying bills. Russia had lots of money and they invested it into modernizing their nuclear weapons and their nuclear-powered submarines. Safety of existing or closed nuclear installations was of no concern. OTOH Russia's Rosatom was interested to build nuclear powerplants together with Siemens in the early 2000s... https://www.siemens.com/press/en/pressrelease/?press=/en/pressrelease/2009/corporate_communication/axx20090338.htm https://www.siemens.com/press/en/pressrelease/?press=/en/pre... Siemens earlier built reactors together with Rosatom... in 2011 Siemens was quitting this business.