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IAEA’s Uranium bank in Kazakhstan likely to never have any customers

Reuters 11th July 2017 The U.N. global nuclear watchdog is about to open a uranium bank in the Central Asian state of Kazakhstan, but it may never have any customers.

The raw material used to make nuclear fuel and atomic bombs will be stored in aSoviet-era industrial plant where security was once considered so lax that all the highly enriched uranium kept there was removed in a covert U.S. operation in 1994.

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s goal now is the same as Washington’s 23 years ago as it prepares for next month’s launch of its Low Enriched Uranium Bank in the city of Oskemen — to prevent nuclear proliferation.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-nuclear-kazakhstan-bank-idUKKBN19W0UV

July 14, 2017 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Kazakhstan, safety