Russia skeleton to modify dual chief investigate reactors to low-enriched uranium fuel in 2014 underneath a U.S.-Russian chief team-work module on pacific use of atomic energy.
Russia has sensitive a United States that one or dual reactors will be converted in 2014, Sergey Kiriyenko, a conduct of Russian state-run polite chief house Rosatom, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman said.
Russia progressing halted 9 out of 27 investigate reactors fueled with high-enriched uranium. The United States has stopped or converted to low-enriched uranium 20 out of 27 reactors.
The long-stalled U.S.-Russian Agreement for Cooperation in a Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, also famous as a U.S.-Russia 123 Agreement, sealed for 30 years, came into force on Jan 11, 2011. It lays a authorised horizon for team-work in chief research, prolongation and trade, and both sides see it as an critical grant to a non-proliferation regime.