RUSSIA: Russia deployed extra troops to guard dozens of nuclear facilities across the country yesterday, the nuclear authority said.
Russia, the world's second biggest atomic power after the US, has come under international pressure to do more to protect its Soviet-era nuclear facilities against attack.
"After the latest terrorist attacks, security services decided to send more interior ministry troops to all nuclear sites across the country," a Russian Atomic Energy Agency spokesman said.
Russia runs dozens of atomic reactors, uranium enrichment facilities and nuclear research reactors - some of which are poorly guarded. - (Reuters)
