MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - The head of Russia's nuclear agency will visit the United States May 19-23 to discuss civilian nuclear cooperation, the agency said Monday.
Sergei Kiriyenko is scheduled to meet with U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, and other nuclear and security officials, as well as congressmen.
Kiriyenko will also attend a session of a top-level group drafting a report to the Russian and U.S. presidents on bilateral nuclear cooperation following last February's Bratislava summit between the countries' presidents, and will deliver a report on the role of nuclear power in energy security and Russian-U.S. cooperation on civilian nuclear power to a session of the Council on Foreign Relations.
