#14 - RW 275
HOW ARE YOU USING RUSSIAN URANIUM? RUSSIA ASKS USA

MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 25 (RIA NOVOSTI) - Sergei Stepashin, Russia's Audit Chamber president, addressed David Walker, US Comptroller General, for information about the use of low-enriched uranium the United States is importing from Russia for nuclear power plants.

"We are working together on low-enriched uranium supplies. It greatly matters to us what becomes of such uranium. Last but not least, Russian parliamentarians are tremendously concerned about the issue," Mr. Stepashin said to the media after Moscow talks with Mr. Walker.

The negotiators analyzed the implementation of a bilateral agreement made ten years ago on uranium utilization. As the document stipulates, Russia processes its redundant nuclear weaponry into low-enriched uranium to export it as fuel to US-based nuclear plants.

Prominent on the Stepashin-Walker agenda were parallel inspections against wasting and misspending both countries' allocations to implement the agreement.

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