06.11.2007, 13.39
MOSCOW, November 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia and China have agreed to start joint action to build a gas centrifuge plant in Chinese territory to enrich uranium for the nuclear power industry.
The chief of Russia’s atomic energy industry Sergei Kiriyenko and chairman of China’s Defense Science, Technology and Industry committee, Zhang Qinwei, signed a protocol to the corresponding agreement of December 18 1992 within the framework of the twelfth regular meeting of Russian and Chinese prime ministers on Tuesday.
The two men also put their signatures to a protocol on the development of medium term cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear power.
Within the framework of Tuesday’s meeting a framework agreement was inked between Tekhsnabexport and the China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation on technical assistance in the construction of the 4th unit of the gas centrifuge plant.