Government of Norway pledged to support the idea of IAEA administered fuel bank and to contribute $5 million to it. This particular fuel bank project was initiated by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which in 2006 secured a contribution of $100...
February 2008 Archives
Although Russia confirmed its commitment to supply additional reactors to India, it will wait for the Nuclear Suppliers Group to make an exception for India....
The New York Review of Books in its March 20 issue publishes a paper by William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, and Jim Walsh that proposes a plan for creating a multinational enrichment facility in Iran, along with statements from senators...
Russia and Iran will set up a joint venture company to operate the reactor in Bushehr. A Rosatom representative was quoted as saying that the joint company will provide training to Iranian operators who will gradually replace Russian operators. This...
Russia and India signed an agreement that commits Russia to build four additional power reactors at Kudankulam. It appears that one of the conditions of the contract is that Russia will supply the reactors with fuel and then will take...
Prime ministers of Russia and Armenia signed an intergovernmental agreement that will make Armenia a partner in the International Enrichment Center in Angarsk....
According to Sergei Kislyak, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia will offer the enrichment plant in Angarsk to IAEA safeguards. Kislyak was quoted as saying that "The center [...] will be under the constant surveillance of the IAEA."...
On February 1st, 2008 Director of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko and U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez signed an agreement that would allow Russia to sell more uranium enrichment services to U.S. utilities....
A good overview of the status of the Russian-Indian nuclear cooperation - Eager to Increase Nuclear Exports, Russia Awaits Nuclear Suppliers Group Exemption for India, by Anya Loukianova of the Monterey Institute James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The bottom...