Russia said Tuesday it has signed contracts worth one billion dollars to supply uranium for US nuclear reactors, the first such deals between the two countries.
Techsnabexport, the export arm of the Russia's Federal Nuclear Energy Agency (Rosatom), signed the contracts in Moscow with three US companies grouped together in the firm Fuelco, Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov told AFP.
The three US companies were named as Luminant, Ameren UE and Pacific Oil and Gas.
"The deal is worth one billion dollars (700 million euros) and runs from 2014 to 2020," Novikov said.
The agreement on the deliveries followed a deal signed last year by Washington and Moscow which authorised Russian uranium exports to the US civil nuclear power industry.
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