Serbia, Russia co-operate in nuclear weapons field

Russia's Nuclear Energy Agency, Rosatom, presented on Monday its work plan on Serbia's market.

Deputy Director of the Department for Development and International Enterprise near Rosatom, Boris Arseyev, said this company is ready to offer Serbia “beyond energy”.

Serbia's “is primarily about developing the scientific and innovative potential of Serbia and solutions in the field of nuclear medicine. We also develop alternative energy, renewable energy sources”, Arseyev said at a news conference in Belgrade, along with the minister without portfolio in Serbia's government, responsible for innovation and technological development, Nenad Popovic.

He indicated confident that “this co-operation with Rosatom “will bring many new opportunities and many new jobs”.

Asked by the Balkan Radio Service Free Europe what Rosatom's volume of investments, Popovic gave no concrete answers.

After decades of no contact between Rosatom and companies from Serbia, scientific research institutions, it is early to talk about investments. It is important that the first contact has been established”, Popovic said.

Rosatom's delegation has gone to Belgrade less than four months after in Sochi, Russia, Popovovic and the general director of the Russian state-owned corporation Rosatom, Alexey Lihacov, have signed a document on principles of Russian-Serbia co-operation in the field of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Rosatom, as reported on his official page, is present in 44 countries worldwide, 16 in Europe.

Before applying nuclear power to medicine, Rosatom is known for building nuclear plants. On such projects, Rosatom is working in Bulgaria and Hungary. Their implementation is not complete, even though the foundations of co-operation were established years ago.

The project to rebuild Bulgaria's Belene nuclear power plant is still under question.