U.S. to Fund Return of Latvian HEU Fuel to Russia

A research reactor in Latvia is set to be decommissioned and its spent highly enriched uranium fuel returned to Russia as part of the U.S. Global Threat Reduction Initiative, officials said last week (see GSN, June 1).

The Salaspils research reactor, located southeast of the Latvian capital of Riga, will be decommissioned by 2010, according to Andris Salmins, director of the Latvian Radiation Safety Center. The United States will fund the return of the reactor’s spent HEU fuel to Russia, which originally established the reactor during the Soviet era, Salmins said. The total cost for the project could be as much as $20 million (Timothy Jacobs, Associated Press).

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