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In September, Rosatom offered its services to Japan to assist in cleaning up at the Fukushima NPP and in decommissioning other unsafe nuclear power plants.
Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom is ready to take defective fuel from the Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), said Rosatom department’s director Andrei Ivanov on Friday.
“Different options of such cooperation were discussed,” he said, adding that no specific decisions have been made so far.
In September, Rosatom offered its services to Japan to assist in cleaning up at the Fukushima NPP and in decommissioning other unsafe nuclear power plants.
That followed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Russia and Japan will start joint efforts to clean up after the accident.
The countries’ “cooperation in the sphere of the peaceful atom has been growing, and we expect that by the end of the year we will announce joint projects to eliminate the consequences of the Fukushima meltdown,” Putin said after talks with Japanese Prime Minister…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Ah, why did they wait so long?
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It’s my understanding that Russia has really been struggling economically due to the sanctions the West has placed on them. I suspect the Chinese may be paying for this – indirectly of course. I think there’s still a lot of friction between Japan and China on some disputed islands, which would make them disinclined to accept aid direclty from China.
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