IAEA, Romania Discuss Plans for Transferring Russian-Origin Spent Nuclear Reactor Fuel

Romania and the International Atomic Energy Agency are developing plans for transporting spent fuel from a Romanian research reactor to Russia, the Romanian Rompres news agency reported yesterday (see GSN, July 21).

The United States and Romania last month signed an agreement under which Washington agreed to assist the repatriation of Russian-origin spent fuel from the Romanian research reactor, located near Bucharest (Rompres/BBC Monitoring, Aug. 4).

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