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Ukraine’s enriched uranium to go to Russia

“We are receiving money for the recycling (of the uranium) and the recycling will take place, chiefly, in Russia,”

Russia is likely to take Ukraine enriched uranium, Arab News By REUTERS Apr 14, 2010

KIEV: Russia will take the highly enriched uranium which Ukraine has announced it is giving up, senior officials on both sides said. Ukraine announced on Monday, at a 47-nation summit in Washington on prevention of nuclear terrorism, that it would get rid of a stockpile of highly enriched material by 2012.

Speaking on the Russian news channel Russia 24 on Tuesday, Alexei Lebedev, general director of the International Uranium Enrichment Center, said the material would be put in containers and taken to Russia by railway…….

“We are receiving money for the recycling (of the uranium) and the recycling will take place, chiefly, in Russia,” Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuev told journalists on Wednesday.

Klyuev spokes of the risk of a “dirty bomb” being built illegally if such material went astray.

“The least we have of this material in Ukraine, the better we will sleep in our beds,” he said…….

Ukraine, a former Soviet state, destroyed its nuclear arsenal after the end of the Cold War and sent its nuclear warheads back to Russia under a 1994 three-way agreement which also included the United States.

Russia is likely to take Ukraine enriched uranium – Arab News

April 15, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Ukraine | antinuclear, enriched, fast breeder, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, reactors, uranium