OREANDA-NEWS. September 15, 2009. Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Commissariat а l’energie atomique (French Commission for Nuclear Energy) will draft a new agreement for cooperation in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy, the official representative of Rosatom Sergey Novikov said after the meeting of the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko with Chairman of the Commission Bernard Bigot. “The parties have agreed to adopt a new agreement for cooperation in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy and to enlarge their joint work on fast-breeder technologies,” Novikov said during a press-conference.

In 1996 Russia and France signed an inter-governmental agreement for cooperation in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy and an agreement between the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia and the Commission for Atom Energy of France. The Russian-French scientific-technical cooperation in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy covers nuclear safety, innovative reactors, personnel training, nuclear fuel cycle, fundamental research, public awareness, the economic and legal aspects of nuclear power engineering.

The Russian-French agreement for cooperation in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy was signed in 2006 in the framework of the G8 Global Partnership program. Under this agreement the parties process and dispose of nuclear waste in the territory of Russia.