MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Rosatom is expecting civilian nuclear cooperation with the United States to resume in spring 2009, a source in the Russian state nuclear power corporation said Friday.
"The main thing now is not to get in a flap. Optimistically, everything will resume in the spring, pessimistically - in two or three years," the source said.
Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko earlier said the Bush administration's decision on September 8 to withdraw a Russian-U.S. nuclear cooperation treaty from Congress was "absolutely right."
Kiriyenko said the adoption of the agreement would be impossible before U.S. presidential elections and the arrival of a new administration.
Kiriyenko and William Burns, then U.S. ambassador in Russia, signed the agreement, known as the 123 Agreement because it falls under section 123 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act, on May 6.
