MOSCOW, April 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has completed the removal of spent nuclear fuel from Uzbekistan for processing at its nuclear facilities, a spokesman for the Russian nuclear agency said Friday.
"Under a Russian-American intergovernmental agreement, which obliges Russia to process its nuclear fuel from research reactors in other countries, the waste after processing the Uzbek nuclear fuel [in Russia] will be returned back to Uzbekistan," said Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power.
Russia started to transport spent nuclear fuel from Uzbekistan in January this year and completed the last delivery April 19, Novikov said.
Under the Russian-American agreement, signed on May 27, 2004, Russia has already delivered spent nuclear fuel from Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Libya.
