BANGKOK—The military-led government of Burma (also known as Myanmar), 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.
Burma’s state media reported 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.
Officials from the two sides met at the newly opened Nuclear Technology Information Center in Burma’s largest city, Yangon, on Monday, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said….