LATVIA RETURNS RUSSIAN-MADE HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM BACK TO RUSSIA
RIA Novosti - Russia - LATVIA RETURNS RUSSIAN-MADE HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM BACK TO RUSSIA: "LATVIA RETURNS RUSSIAN-MADE HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM BACK TO RUSSIA
MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - Latvia has returned to Russia slightly more than 2.5 kilograms of Russian-made highly enriched uranium, the Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy (Rosatom) reported. RIA Novosti received the information on Thursday.
On May 25, 2005, non-irradiated fuel of the Salaspils research nuclear reactor was brought to Russia from Latvia.
'Soon, the nuclear fuel will be sent to the state research institute of the Luch Scientific and Industrial Association (Moscow region) to be processed into a nuclear material of low enrichment from which fuel elements for Nuclear Power Plants' energy reactors will be made,' the press release says.
The importation of fuel is carried out by the Rosatom under the Russian-American intergovernmental agreement of May 27, 2004 on cooperation in bringing into Russia of the fuel of research reactors, made in the Russian Federation, with the assistance of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the document says.
This is the sixth operation of this kind, the press release says, in which the enterprises of the Rosatom take part.
Earlier, the document continues, the following deliveries of highly enriched nuclear fuel to Russia were carried out: from the VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences on August 22, 2003, from the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (Sofia, Bulgaria) on December 23, 2003, from the Tajura Nuclear Research Center (Libya) on March 8, 2004, and from the Nuclear Research Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences on September 10, 2004."
MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - Latvia has returned to Russia slightly more than 2.5 kilograms of Russian-made highly enriched uranium, the Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy (Rosatom) reported. RIA Novosti received the information on Thursday.
On May 25, 2005, non-irradiated fuel of the Salaspils research nuclear reactor was brought to Russia from Latvia.
'Soon, the nuclear fuel will be sent to the state research institute of the Luch Scientific and Industrial Association (Moscow region) to be processed into a nuclear material of low enrichment from which fuel elements for Nuclear Power Plants' energy reactors will be made,' the press release says.
The importation of fuel is carried out by the Rosatom under the Russian-American intergovernmental agreement of May 27, 2004 on cooperation in bringing into Russia of the fuel of research reactors, made in the Russian Federation, with the assistance of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the document says.
This is the sixth operation of this kind, the press release says, in which the enterprises of the Rosatom take part.
Earlier, the document continues, the following deliveries of highly enriched nuclear fuel to Russia were carried out: from the VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences on August 22, 2003, from the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (Sofia, Bulgaria) on December 23, 2003, from the Tajura Nuclear Research Center (Libya) on March 8, 2004, and from the Nuclear Research Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences on September 10, 2004."
posted by Greta Jane at Friday, May 27, 2005
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