Russia and Latvia sign agreement for cooperation on return of irradiated nuclear fuel to Russia

03.12.2007 // Press service of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy

Latvia and Russia have signed an agreement for cooperation on the return of irradiated fuel to Russia

Today, on Dec 3 2007, the head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy (Rosatom) Sergey Kiriyenko and Minister of Environment of Latvia Raimonds Vejonis signed an agreement for cooperation on the return of irradiated fuel from the Latvia-based research reactor to the territory of Russia.

The agreement is aimed at preventing proliferation of nuclear weapons and reducing the threat of international terrorism. The return of the fuel assemblies used by the research reactor in Salaspils (Latvia) is part of the Bratislava agreements between the presidents of Russia and the United States for cooperation on the return of Russia-made spent nuclear fuel from research reactors to the territory of Russia.

The fuel assemblies from Salaspils will be reprocessed at Mayak PA FSUE (Cheliabinsk region).