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Russia Hosts IAEA Conference on Nuclear Fuel Cycle
The Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency are hosting a three-day conference in Moscow beginning today to examine ways to regulate use of the nuclear fuel cycle, the U.N. agency announced in a press release (see GSN, May 31). Yuri Sokolov, the agency’s deputy director general for nuclear energy, told conference delegates that the agency favors improving regulation of the nuclear fuel cycle. “The IAEA is addressing the challenges through implementing strengthened safeguards and promoting assurances of supply of nuclear fuel cycle services together with assurances of nonproliferation,” he said. “In this regard, the agency is seeking to promote enhanced controls over sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, in particular uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing technology” (IAEA release, July 13). Meanwhile, Russian atomic energy chief Alexander Rumyantsev yesterday called for increased nuclear security following last week’s bombings in London, the Associated Press reported. Rumyantsev said that while Russian and U.S. nuclear sites are guarded, “in connection with the changing contemporary threats, new challenges arise which must be resisted — today we understand this when an appalling terror attack has just occurred” (Associated Press, July 12).
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