Gerald Boyd, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Science and Technology, Office of Environmental Management, U.S. DOE (left) and Victor Gubanov, Assistant Deputy Minister, MINATOM (right), signing the 8th JCCEM Record of Meeting.

Under the umbrella of the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (PUAE) Agreement, DOE and the Ministry of Atomic Energy for the Russian Federation (MINATOM) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) in the areas of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management in September 1990.  The MOC provides the mechanism for conducting joint technology development activities in environmental restoration and waste management.  Both DOE and Russia have been engaged in aggressive technology development programs over the past several decades.

The current MOC identifies five areas for cooperation:

1. Development of policy and practices regarding environmental restoration and waste management;
2. Evaluation of problems related to environmental remediation, decontamination and decommissioning of facilities and materials contaminated by radioactive and other hazardous waste;
3. Research and development directed at improving the effectiveness, economics, safety and public acceptability of methods of handling, storing, and permanently disposing of radioactive and associated hazardous waste;
4. Analyses and investigations related to waste partitioning to facilitate permanent disposal; and
5. Analyses and investigations related to geologic disposal of radioactive wastes.

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