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.
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