Kazakhstan safeguards its stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium and uranium
NOV 17, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024837
NPR : With US help, Kazakhstan has successfully transferred 100 tons of weapons-grade plutonium and uranium—enough to make 800 nuclear bombs—from a cold warera nuclear power station on the shores of the Caspian Sea to a secret location 2500 km inland. As NPR’s Mike Shuster reports, plans for the transfer began in the mid 1990s when US weapons experts visited the power station and realized just how much Pu and U was stored there.
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