RUSSIA'S ROSATOM TO PREPARE ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR

UNCLAS MOSCOW 001171 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPT FOR ISN/NESS (ROBIN DELABARRE) E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY RS SUBJECT: RUSSIA'S ROSATOM TO PREPARE ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER REF: STATE 39945 SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ¶1. (SBU) In separate meetings April 23, we discussed the nuclear fuel fabrication transaction between Exelon Corporation and TVEL of Russia with Senior Counselor Aleksey Karpov and Second Secretary Aleksandr Trofimov from the MFA's Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs, and with Konstantin Popov, Acting Director of the International Department at Rosatom. Karpov, Trofimov and Popov agreed that preliminarily this appeared to be a routine civilian nuclear commercial transaction. Popov said that Rosatom would work on preparing the requested GOR assurances for the transaction. RUSSELL