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TVEL belongs to Atomenergoprom that is a part of the Rosatom State corporation. As a State corporation, Rosatom is subordinate to Putin. As Jan Haverkamp of Greenpeace explains: “Rosatom is a political vehicle”. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/prank-video-finland-prime-minister-rosatom/blog/54006.

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There is a “Partially closed meeting re GNF RAJ II Fuel Transport“, on this Thursday, April 6th, which is almost certainly to transport the TVEL fuel: https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/view?AccessionNumber=ML17082A294

10CFR50.46 Exemption Request Pre-Submittal Meeting, E110opt Cladding Material, March 6, 2017

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The now former CEO of Rosatom, Sergey Kirienko, was appointed Putin’s First Deputy Chief (of the Presidential Executive Office), in October – a reward for pulling off this con? The current CEO, Alexey Likhachev was previously First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

Whether Russia will be allowed to test its nuclear fuel in a US reactor, or not, is the true test of…