MOSCOW, December 10 (RIA Novosti) - Rosatom has completed the removal of spent fuel from the Nuclear Research Institute in the Czech town of Rez, the press service of the Russian nuclear power corporation said on Monday.
The 549 Russian-made nuclear fuel rods have been sent back to Russia for temporary storage and reprocessing, and the waste will be returned to the Czech Republic.
The transfer was in line with a 2004 Russian-U.S. intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in removing Russian-made nuclear fuel from research reactors to Russia.
The fuel was transported in containers manufactured by Skoda.
The press service said Russia will use the funds raised from this project to tackle areas contaminated by radiation.
