OREANDA-NEWS. March 28, 2011. As Head of Rosatom Sergey Kirienko informed the journalists in Washington, the corresponding memorandum had been signed by the parties in January, 2010, but came into force only now when JSC "Techsnabexport" and American USEC signed the long-term contract on deliveries of low-enriched uranium since 2013.

"Factory creation is definitely a deeper technological cooperation and this is a long way to go which cannot be passed in one day, but today we started in this direction", — S.Kirienko said.

He said the given event was a symbolic one for nuclear branch of all the world in the context of situation in the Japanese NPP "Fukushima — 1" after tsunami.

"When the two countries being the leaders of the world nuclear market, sign the long-term contract such situation, it is somewhat an answer to the question whether there will be further development of atomic engineering", — Rosatom Head underlined.

At the same time he did not say a word about possible parameters of the future enterprise. The working group to be created soon should prepare the project feasibility report.

"There should be such a capacity of the factory so that the project would be economically expedient. It depends on the market, and the markets now should be precisely should be definitely estimated once again because of the situation in Japan", — S.Kirienko added.