Russia Retrieves HEU Fuel From Czech Republic

Nearly 14 kilograms of highly enriched uranium was transferred yesterday from a research reactor in the Czech Republic to Russia for converting into a non-weapon-usable form, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, May 26).

The transfer was the eighth sponsored by a U.S-Russian initiative to repatriate Soviet-produced highly enriched uranium from research reactors around the world. Russia has pledged to retrieve the material from civilian research facilities in 17 countries in order to prevent the uranium from falling into the hands of terrorists, according to AP (Associated Press, Sept. 28).

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