Russia says it wants end to U.S. nuclear discrimination

Russia’s nuclear energy chief has warned that there is no alternative to nuclear power in the coming decades and said he wants to secure an end to U.S. discrimination against the country.

Sergei Kiriyenko, currently on a week-long visit to the United States that will end May 24, said without nuclear energy industry the world would not be able to ensure global energy security for the next 30-40 years and overcome a looming energy crisis.

“To do this, we must allow new countries to gain access to inexpensive nuclear energy and at the same time guarantee the nuclear non-proliferation regime, under which leaders in the sphere of nuclear energy, such as the U.S. and Russia, assume particular responsibility,” Kiriyenko said.

RIA Novotni