RUSSIA AND THE SUMMIT AFTERMATH : Yeltsin Gets a Warm Welcome but Little Cold Cash in Canada : Diplomacy: Despite cheers from Parliament, Russian president gets no massive infusions of aid. Accords are signed, other deals are in the works.

If rounds of applause had a cash value, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin would be leaving the Canadian capital today a rich man.

Yeltsin was interrupted 17 times by bursts of applause from enthusiastic members of Parliament on Friday as he delivered a speech on Russia’s economic reforms, the death of Communist ideology and his hopes for a “normal” future.

“We don’t want a super life, just a normal life,” he said, suggesting that Russians hope for little more than to survive the chaos and pain that the transition to a free-market economy has caused them so far.

But in terms of cold infusions of capital, or the debt relief that Yeltsin might have liked to see, the Russian president’s trip to Canada yielded relatively little. Yeltsin and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed agreements on nuclear-power technology, higher education and general technical assistance totaling about $100 million.

Canadians said additional deals, involving Canadian wheat, steel and other goods are still being negotiated.

There were no massive military overhauls or surprise announcements about long-lost prisoners of war, as there were during Yeltsin’s recently ended visit with President Bush.

On nuclear power, Canada unveiled a program it valued at about $26 million to help the countries of the former Soviet Union bring their nuclear plants up to international standards. The initiative stems from fears that without upgrading there could be another accident like the one at Chernobyl.

Under the program, Canada will send its government and utility nuclear technicians to various reactor sites in the former Soviet republics--and in some former satellite countries in Eastern Europe, as well--where they are to draw up improved safety procedures and introduce Western-style management techniques.

Canada’s nuclear initiative parallels similar work being organized by the European Community and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

On education, Mulroney said Canada would create an $8.7-million scholarship fund, called the Yeltsin Democracy Fellowships.

About 150 Russians are to be selected, at the rate of about 20 each year, to come to Canada and spend a year with either a university or a major public or private organization--perhaps a bank, a manufacturing concern, the federal Department of Finance or a provincial government agency. It is hoped that the selected Russians will learn about Western public policy and entrepreneurial behavior.

In his remarks to Parliament, Yeltsin bemoaned the fact that few people who remember life before the “evil” Communist revolution are still alive and that the entrepreneurial spirit has thus been all but snuffed out.

“Gradually the people are awakening and becoming more creative,” he said, adding that he expects the influx of Canadian-educated Russians to help.

“We shall receive from among them a new, talented president of Russia,” he jokingly predicted as members of Parliament clapped and laughed approvingly.

In the area of general technical assistance, Mulroney said Canada will increase to about $87 million an existing program with the former Soviet republics encompassing agriculture, energy, science and technology and management. Russia is to get two-thirds of that amount.

When Canada launched the program in July, 1991, it was worth about $22 million. Projects worth only about a third of that amount have been approved so far. The new funds will be spent bringing still more Russians and other former Soviets to Canada to study in corporations, on farms and in Parliament, and to send Canadian business consultants to Russia to help public and private organizations there make the transition to a free-market economy.

There will also be efforts to find peacetime projects for former Soviet military industries, to upgrade the oil and gas sectors in the Russian far north, to map natural-resource sites and to monitor contaminants in the Arctic.

Mulroney and Yeltsin also signed bilateral agreements creating a framework for their countries’ trade, political and economic relations and for development in the Arctic.

Yeltsin’s mood in Ottawa seemed far cheerier on this visit than it did in February, when he complained bitterly in a press conference that he had been spending months trying in vain to convince Western investors that Russia was open for business.