Enriched Uranium Is Flown to Russia
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From Times Wire Reports
Twenty-four pounds of highly enriched uranium, enough for a crude nuclear weapon, was secretly flown to Russia last week from a research lab in Uzbekistan, where Washington had feared terrorists could obtain the material, the U.S. Energy Department said.
The material came from nuclear fuel assemblies kept at a research reactor near Tashkent, the capital. It is to be turned into low-enriched uranium that will no longer be suitable for a weapon.
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