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Iran: Still No Agreement on Returning Spent Nuclear Fuel to Russia Tehran and Moscow, unexpectedly, did not sign an agreement last week on a plan to return spent fuel to Russia from an $800 million dollar reactor being built in Iran, according to Russian Atomic Energy Minister Alexander Rumyantsev (see GSN, Dec. 16). Rumyantsev was in Iran last week to finalize the spent fuel agreement, but the two sides never signed. “A concrete agreement calls for a certain procedure,” Rumyantsev told reporters after returning to Moscow. “During our stay in Iran the president of the state said that Iran was fully in favor of the idea. Now an intergovernment agreement must be agreed between the ministries and agencies … we have already finalized the text of the addition and it is currently pending before the Foreign Ministry for approval. It begins with the words that Russia undertakes to deliver and the Iranian side undertakes to return spent nuclear fuel and then spells out the procedure,” he added. Rumyantsev said he hopes an agreement will be signed within a month (Federal News Service transcript, Dec. 27).
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