Russia to build N-centre in sanctions-hit Myanmar

Russia said yesterday it had agreed to help build a light-water nuclear reactor and research centre in Myanmar, an Asian state run by a military junta that is under European and US economic sanctions.

"The agreement foresees cooperation in the design and equipping of a centre for nuclear research in Myanmar," including a light water nuclear reactor, Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom said in a statement.

Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko and Myanmar's Science and Technology Minister U Thaung signed the deal for construction of the centre yesterday in Moscow, the statement said.