Russia and the United States have stopped cooperation on ensuring nuclear safety - media

In mid-December 2014, a meeting of high-ranking Russian and US officials took place in Moscow, at which a declaration was signed on the termination of cooperation between the two countries in ensuring safety at Russian nuclear facilities. The initiator of this decision was the Russian side. This was reported by the American editionThe Boston Globe».

According to journalists, the Russians at the meeting refused to help the United States to protect the largest reserves of weapons-grade uranium and steal from theft and selling them on the black market. Russian officials, in particular, have canceled measures to strengthen security measures in some of the “seven closed nuclear cities”. They reported the termination of 1 cooperation with US security experts at 2015 civilian facilities that store nuclear substances from 13 on January XNUMX. A project was also stopped to turn highly enriched uranium into a less dangerous variety.

According to the publication, the US government has invested in this project about 2 billions of dollars, and were going to continue it at least until 2018 year. However, the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea and Russia's participation in the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine extremely aggravated relations between Russia and the United States, abruptly ending the successful cooperation of former opponents in the Cold War, writes AmericaRu.com