Russia, U.S. enact nuclear pact

• Russia and the United States have enacted a historic nuclear cooperation pact that will enable the two countries to collaborate in atomic technologies for the first time in the history of their relations.
• The 123 agreement was signed in May 2008 but was frozen later the same year by Washington over the Russia-Georgia war. U.S. President Barack Obama persuaded the Congress to ratify the pact in December as part of his policy of "reset" in relations with Russia. The deal would allow Russia to store and reprocess U.S. spent fuel and would give the U.S access to state-of-the-art Russian nuclear technologies. Experts said the U.S., which has not built a single nuclear reactor in the past 30 years, is especially interested in fast-neutron reactors, as well as in recycling nuclear fuel and buying Russian enriched uranium.