MOSCOW, July 21 (RIA Novosti) - Washington thinks the global nuclear materials leak is not simply related to Russia, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow's Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel Russell told a Moscow press conference Thursday.
Russell said he thought the nuclear substance leak was more of a global problem.
First Deputy Russian Federal Custom Service Chief Vladimir Shamakhov said nuclear substances were both taken out of the country and brought in.
Shamakhov said 80% of nuclear materials are illegally imported, while only 20% are illegally exported.
The customs service hosted the opening of a Russian-American customs center for controlling radioactive and fissionable substances. The center is one stage in a jointly created information system.
