Antinuclear

Australian uranium to Russia

First_shipment_of_Australian_enriched_uranium_to_be_delivered_to_Russia,  Steel Guru, 12 June 2012,   Itar Tass reported that the first shipment of Australian natural uranium will be delivered to Russia for enrichment this year. It was announced after Technosnabexport belonging to the ROSATOM State Nuclear Energy Corporation and Australia’s Rio Tinto Company signed an agreement within the framework of the ATOMEXPO 2012 forum.

Australia’s ERA Company, incorporated in the Ria Tinto Group will be the contractor from the Australian side.

According to Rosatom, the first delivery is scheduled for the third quarter of 2012 via the maritime sea port of St Petersburg. Australian natural uranium will be processed at the Siberian Chemical Works owned by the TVEL fuel company in Seversk. After that, Technosnabexport will supply the low enriched uranium to one of the foreign companies.
The ATOMEXPORT 2012 international forum opened in Moscow last Monday. It drew together over 1,300 experts from 53 countries. In recent years, the forum has turned into a world’s leading platform for discussion of nuclear energy themes. The state of atomic industry two years after the Fukushima accident was the key topic this year.

June 13, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News