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Russia, Iran to sign protocol on spent fuel return to Russia

IRNA

2003/08/25

Moscow, Aug 25, Itar-Tass/ACSNA/IRNA -- The additional protocol on the
return of spent nuclear fuel from the Iranian nuclear power plant to 
Russia will be signed by late September, state secretary of the 
Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy Valery Govorukhin told Tass on 
Monday. 
He believes the document will most probably be signed during a 
regular meeting of the Russo-Iranian interdepartmental commission in 
Tehran. 
It was stressed at the ministry that the exact date of the 
protocol`s signing would be agreed upon by the Russian and Iranian 
delegations during the bilateral meetings at the general assembly of 
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna in 
mid-September. 
The deliveries of nuclear fuel assemblies for the experimental 
launching of the first power-generating set of the Iranian nuclear 
power plant would be started immediately upon the protocol`s signing, 
Govorukhin said. 
The reactor`s launching is scheduled for mid-2004. 
Govorukhin said that, according to the ministry`s information, 
"Tehran fully agrees with the protocol`s provisions and is ready to 
sign it." 
He recalled that the protocol had been drafted during the latest 
visit of Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Alexander Rumyantsev to 
Iran and to the construction site of the nuclear power plant at 
Bushehr in December 2002. 
The Russian government last Friday instructed the Ministry of 
Atomic Energy to sign the protocol. 
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