– Edited By Tom Lamar –
Russia may boost nuclear power cooperation with the United States to meet the need for medium-energy reactors in developing countries, authorities from the state-controlled Rosatom nuclear corporation said.
Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko held talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman Tuesday and signed an agreement with the U.S. on converting Russian research reactors to low-enriched uranium fuel.
"One of the issues on which we can cooperate with the United States is new reactor technology, including fast-neutron reactors, high-temperature reactors as well as low-energy reactors, and maybe even mobile ones," Kiriyenko was quoted by local media as saying.
"It's a safer and non-proliferation way to go," he said.
Currently, Russia and the U.S. are cooperating in this area under a program for converting Russia's many research and test reactors, with the aim of reducing the risk of the proliferation of high-grade radioactive materials that could end up in the hands of terrorists.
In addition, the two sides also signed a joint report on outcomes of the joint Russian-U.S. working group on nuclear energy under the presidential commission, which is supposed to be drawn up once every six months.