Belarus vows to relinquish its uranium stockpile
DEC 02, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024873
New York Times : Belarus is the last of the former constituent republics of the Soviet Union with a large stockpile of highly enriched, near-weapons-grade uranium. Yesterday at a European security summit in Kazakhstan, Belarus announced that it would give up the stockpile by 2012. The renunciation, reports Mark Landler of the New York Times, is a victory for President Obama’s administration, which will help Belarus dispose of the uranium. The US will also help Belarus build nuclear power stations that run on lower-enriched uranium, thereby reducing the country’s dependence on imported gas from Russia.
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