Sentences with phrase «russian nuclear agreement»

In 2014, Earthlife Africa obtained a copy of the secret South African - Russian nuclear agreement.

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On June 8, 2010, Uranium One announced it had signed an agreement that would give «not less than 51 %» of the company to JSC Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ, the mining arm of Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency.

As NRC explained in a March 2011 letter to Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Russian company would have to apply for and obtain an export license and «commit to use the material only for peaceful purposes» in accordance with «the U.S. - Russia Atomic Energy Act Section 123 agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation.»

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

This announcement follows the recent agreement between India and Russia to allot a second site for a Russian - built nuclear power plant in India.