Bilateral Programmes
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Outside the framework of many formally structured programmes, much nuclear clean-up and security work in Russia is performed by simple government to government agreements. Both the UK and Norway have, through government to government contracts dismantled some five non-strategic submarines in the Northern Fleet. Likewise, Germany has been working in Sayda Bay to build reliable shelters for submarine reactor compartments. This section deals with agreements such as this that fall outside the more traditional framework of Cold War legacy elimination, such as programs spearheaded by the US Department of Energy.
Russia today rejected U.S. “insinuations” that Moscow is failing to adequately track its Cold War-era nuclear arsenal, the Associated Press reported.
The United States and Russia yesterday completed their biggest transfer yet of weapon-usable uranium from a Hungarian research reactor to a Russian storage facility, the Associated Press reported.
US and Russian officials will meet in Geneva next month to discuss whether to extend a treaty limiting nuclear arsenals that expires late next year, the State Department said on Friday, Reuters reported.