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Russia ready to ship fuel to W. European nuclear power plants

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ELEKTROSTAL (Moscow Region) September 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is ready to directly supply nuclear fuel to nuclear power plants in Western Europe, the director of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) said Friday.

Rosatom currently delivers nuclear fuel to West European nuclear power plants in cooperation with the French company Areva.

"Russian fuel for nuclear power plants is high quality and often superior to Western fuel. We supply nuclear fuel to nuclear power plants in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, but... we want to do business directly with Western energy companies, and not through middlemen," Sergei Kiriyenko said.

He also said that an intergovernmental agreement is pending on the peaceful uses of atomic energy with Japan, adding that Russia has plans to build 26 new nuclear power units by 2020.

The Russian nuclear chief also offered the opinion that nuclear power plants are the most environmentally friendly electricity generators.

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