The U.S. and Russia were to sign a landmark agreement on international nuclear energy cooperation in Moscow on Tuesday, a U.S. embassy official said.
The agreement foresees Moscow and Washington working together on the global nuclear market to promote safe reactor technology, provide nuclear fuel and ensure nonproliferation, drafts of the accord showed.
U.S. President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin set the lines of the agreement at a summit in Kennebunkport in the U.S. last year and discussed it again in the Russian resort of Sochi last month.