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Bush drops 123 with Russia

American leaders have put a nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia on hold, directly linking the move to the recent troubles concerning Georgia and South Ossetia. The move has come one day after the US-led initiative to bring India into the mainstream of nuclear trade was finally successful.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-09-2008
123 Agreement on Hold

In a statement released earlier today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that President Bush has rescinded the U.S. - Russia 123 Agreement . Per Reuters , President George W. Bush on Monday froze a lucrative civilian nuclear pact with Russia, the first big penalty imposed on Moscow after...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-08-2008
Baltic nuclear plant brought forward

Russia's Rosatom has given approval for construction of the 2400 MWe Baltic nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad, the separate part of Russia west of the Baltic States.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
'Nuclear' city athletes win silver for Russia

The head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, has congratulated two athletes from the Russian 'nuclear' city of Novouralsk near Yekaterinburg in the Urals for winning a silver medal as part of the men's 4x200 metres freestyle relay in the Beijing Olympics. At the same time, the team also set a new...

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008
Russian civil nuclear reorganisation proceeds

Russia has announced that its nuclear power generation organisation has been reconstituted and renamed. Rosenergoatom becomes simply Energoatom.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
Russia relocates construction of floating power plant

The Russian government has approved a decision by Rosatom to cancel the general contract with Sevmash for the construction of the first floating nuclear power plant and to move production to Baltiysky Zavod.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008
Russia aims to be 'global player'

[Nuclear.Ru, 6 August] Russia's Ministry for Economic Development, in a draft concept of Russia’s social and economic development up to 2020 submitted to the government for preliminary review, says that state policy on nuclear power aims to develop the country's nuclear power industry into a...

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-08-2008
Italy to build ship for Russian submarine waste

Italian state-owned shipbuilder Fincantieri has been awarded a contract to build a ship for the transport of irradiated fuel and radioactive waste derived from Russian nuclear-powered submarines.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
Russia's Nuclear Energy Investment

The English-language news site Russia Today is reporting that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will invest $40 billion (US) in the country's nuclear energy industry over the next seven years. After that he [Putin] expects the industry will become self-financing. ...Prime minister Vladimir Putin says...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
Russian reactor designer and constructor to merge

Russian reactor builder AtomStroyExport and design organization St Petersburg Scientific Research and Design Institute AtomEnergoProekt are to merge to boost their chances in the international nuclear reactor market.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2008

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