IAEA, Rosatom signs Contribution Agreement to strengthen Nuclear Infrastructure Capacity

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Rosatom (Russian Federation’s State Atomic Corporation) Signs Contribution Agreement to strengthen Nuclear Infrastructure Capacity or expanding an existing programme.

Under the Contribution Agreement, Rosatom will provide USD 1.8 million and an in-kind contribution of RUB 109.5 million over the next three years to IAEA programmes on nuclear infrastructure development.

The agreement was signed in the presence of IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and Rosatom Director General, Alexey Likhachev at the IAEA’s headquarters in Vienna by Mary Alice Hayward (IAEA Deputy Director General of Management) and Nikolay Spassky ( Deputy Director General for International Relations at Rosatom).

Image: Signing of the agreement between Mary Alice Hayward, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management, and Nikolay Spassky, Deputy CEO of the State Atomic Energy Corporation “ROSATOM”, concerning Extra- Budgetary Contribution to the Implementation of the IAEA Technical Cooperation Projects on Nuclear Infrastructure Development at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria, 19 April 2017. (From left to right) IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, Mary Alice Hayward, Nikolay Spassky and Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM. (Source: IAEA)