Ukraine has submitted an amendment to the international atomic energy Agency (IAEA) for nuclear installations in the Crimea, for example research reactor IR-100 in Sevastopol, in order to fix all responsibility for these objects for Russia, said on Thursday at a press conference, the head of the state Inspectorate for nuclear regulation of Ukraine Serhiy Bozhko.
according to him, the amendments relate to the fact that all the responsibility for what may happen on this object will be the Russian Federation." But at the same time, we, that is the country of the holder of this nuclear facility, responsible for the physical protection and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, " he said, Bojko Ukrainian news Agency UNIAN.
The official said that the Russian Federation had already tried formalize ownership of nuclear installations in the Crimea, But no member of the IAEA did not recognize it.
The state nuclear regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine in the summer of 2014 decided to stop for a while license Sevastopol national University of nuclear energy and industry for the right operation of research reactor IR-100.
Crimea and located on the Crimean Peninsula Sevastopol became the Russian regions according to the results of the referendum on 16 March 2014, in which the majority of residents were in favour of joining Russia. Referendums are a response to the February revolution in Kiev, when he was ousted by the country's leader Viktor Yanukovych, as well as to the nationalist rhetoric of the new Kiev authorities.
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