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UAE in talks with Russia on nuclear fuel supplies-paper RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED August 25, 2011 The United Arab Emirates are in talks with Russia over supplies of nuclear fuel for its first nuclear power plant, which will be launched in 2017, the UAE English-language newspaper National quoted on Saturday Hamad Al Kaabi, UAE permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, as saying. In July, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), which is in charge for building the nuclear power plant, located some 300 kilometres from Abu Dhabi, announced a tender offer to sign in 2012 a 15-year agreement on nuclear fuel supplies. The UAE have already signed cooperation agreements which allow them to make deals over supplies of nuclear material with the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Japan, France and South Korea. Russia and the UAE are currently in talks to sign a similar contract, Al Kaabi said. Other news: U.S. lifts market restrictions against Rosatom Rosatom will no longer be required to get a special license from the U.S. Department of Commerce to cooperate with American companies. New chemical elements synthesized by Russian team recognized Element 114 was first synthesized in December 1998 by bombarding plutonium nuclei with calcium nuclei, which have 94 and 20 protons respectively. Russia lacks personnel to dismantle nuclear sites Russia is to decommission and dismantle 42 nuclear facilities by 2015 and 188 by 2020, Rosatom department head Yevgeny Komarov said. |
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