17:46 27/05/2009
MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Cuba have agreed to renew
their cooperation in nuclear research with Cuba's Nuclear Energy Agency,
head of Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko said on Wednesday.
The announcement came during an awards ceremony in Moscow where Cuban
scientific aide Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, Fidel Castro's son,
received the Russian Kurchatov Award for his work in the nuclear sphere.
"On behalf of the entire nuclear division, I present the highest
award...the Kurchatov Award, to Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart. Today, we will
renew our cooperation at [Cuba's] nuclear research center that will
allow us to develop a number of directions in modern science," Kiriyenko
said.
Russian-Cuban nuclear cooperation was halted in 1992 after the
construction of an atomic plant in Cuba was frozen.
Diaz-Balart, 59, is a member of Cuba's Academy of Sciences and studied
theoretical physics in the Soviet Union. He has published numerous
scientific papers in Cuba, Spain and Russia.
In the 1980s, he headed Cuba's nuclear agency at the time that the
Soviet Union and Cuba started the construction of a nuclear plant. The
agency now works in a number of areas in nuclear physics, including
biotechnology and the development of nanotechnology.
Russia, Cuba agree to renew joint nuclear research | Top Russian news
and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire (27 May 2009)
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