yep, both roscosmos and rosatom were heavily propped up by the us government, who saw it prudent to keep the russians at least partially engaged in major technology areas.  in reference to the nuclear program, it was called megatons to megawatts. the program was deemed a success, since russia has far less nuclear weapons while the us received a lot of very cheap uranium for it's reactors.    ons_to_megawatts_program
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