Russia ready to start forming guarantee stocks of uranium this year – official

VIENNA. Sept 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia supports the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) idea on forming guarantee stocks of lowly enriched uranium suitable for the production of fuel for nuclear power plants and is ready to begin to its implementation this year, head of Rosatom state corporation Sergei Kiriyenko told the IAEA General Conference in Vienna on Monday.

"We are ready to get down to the implementation of the proposal already this year," he said.