MOSCOW. June 28 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia on Sunday expressed support for a proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to establish international centers for the storage and recycling of spent nuclear fuel.
"Today Russia is the only country where domestic legislation makes it possible to put this into practice," Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov told an international conference in Moscow called in connection with the 50th anniversary of Russian nuclear power engineering.
He called on all IAEA participants to draw lessons from the history of Russia's nuclear power industry and the tragic events it has involved.
"We need to pool our efforts in seeking security, environmental safety for the industry, and nonproliferation of nuclear weapons," he said.