02 March 2004 23:29
Romania to receive US funds to transfer nuclear fuel to Russia
Bucharest, 2 March: The National Commission for the Control of Nuclear Activity (CNCAN) will sign in this April a
4.5m-dollar financing agreement with the US Department of Energy, with the money to be used to transfer nuclear fuel
from Magurele near Bucharest to the Russian Federation, CNCAN president Lucian Biro told Rompres on Tuesday [2
March].
"The agreement is the result of cooperation among CNCAN, the Russian Federation, the United States and the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that granted important logistic support to Romania in view of this
particularly important action for environment and citizen protection," Biro said.
Actually, Romania is, due to CNCAN policy, the only country in Europe that can make such a transfer, as the project
of the Magurele Nuclear Physics Institute is an IAEA pilot project, Biro added.
This action is part of the Agreement on Implementing Nuclear Guarantees and the Additional Protocol signed in
Romania. The US government granted CNCAN the largest financing given so far to any country for similar actions. The
signing of the agreement between the United States and CNCAN will back the protocol on non-proliferation of nuclear
weapons, stopping trafficking in radioactive substances, nuclear terrorism prevention and combat.
[Rompres news agency] |
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