ALGIERS/MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and Algeria signed an intergovernmental agreement Wednesday to cooperate in nuclear energy, paving the way for possible construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP) in the North African country, Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
The document was signed in the capital Algiers by Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko and Algerian Energy Minister Youcef Yousfi.
It envisages cooperation in the construction of nuclear power plants and research reactors, the use of nuclear reactors for heat generation and desalination of seawater, joint prospecting and mining of uranium deposits, nuclear fuel handling and processing of nuclear waste.
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