Russia signed an agreement with Myanmar yesterday on the construction of a nuclear facility that will include a low-power nuclear research reactor, the Kremlin said today (see GSN, Jan. 24).

Russia and Myanmar will cooperate to build the center, which will include a 10-megawatt reactor, two laboratories and a nuclear waste site, the Russian statement said.  Russia will oversee the construction project and provide technical and material assistance and fuel for the research reactor, the statement said.

Although the United States has not explicitly opposed the project, it has called for safeguards to be installed to ensure that Myanmar cannot use the reactor for military purposes, according to Agence France-Presse (Agence France-Presse, May 16).

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