BRUSSELS, December 22 (Xinhua Liu Xiurong) 22 EU Council of Ministers in Brussels, said it decided to start with Russia on "the peaceful use of nuclear energy cooperation agreement" negotiations, and to authorize the European Commission to negotiate the matter with the Russian . 

The European Commission responsible for energy commissioner Piebalgs said that "the peaceful use of nuclear energy cooperation agreement" aimed at the unification of both Russia and Europe of nuclear safety standards, promote bilateral cooperation in the nuclear field of legal transactions, and reached the agreement in line with the interests of both, will the two governments and the nuclear energy enterprises to provide a "stable and predictable," the legal framework. 

The European Commission issued a statement the same day that Russia is the world's major nuclear material and nuclear facilities, one of the EU's nuclear power plant fuel and related services, the main provider.wow gold  Communique also said that the development of nuclear energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is one effective way, so a growing number of EU countries interested in the development of nuclear power generation. 

Nuclear power is the main source of energy in the EU countries, one of nearly a third of the EU's electricity consumption comes from nuclear power, within the European Union is running a nuclear power plant 146, there are a number of nuclear power plant construction projects. At present, the EU has with the United States, Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan, the four countries signed a peace use of nuclear energy cooperation agreement.