Burma, Russia Sign Pact on Developing Nuclear Power

A man walks in front of a huge Russian flag hanging on the Moskva Hotel's facade at the central Manezhnaya Square just outside the Kremlin in Moscow on March 6, 2012. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images

BANGKOK—The military-led government of Burma (also known as Myanmar), working with Russia’s state atomic energy company, has inaugurated a nuclear power information center as a step toward developing atomic power to fill energy shortages in the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation.

Burma’s state media reported Tuesday that the head of the military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, met with Alexey Evgenievich Likhachev, director general of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corp., or Rosatom.