By empty (12/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia and Iran are very likely to sign a supplement to an agreement on reimports into Russia of spent nuclear fuel from the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran, which Russia is helping build, the head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday. \"At the current moment, the Russian corporation TVEL is agreeing with the Iranian side a contract that would agree the supply of fresh nuclear fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant and the return of spent nuclear fuel,\" Alexander Rumyantsev told a news conference in Moscow. (Interfax).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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