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An elite US unit secretly removed a cache of weapons-grade uranium this week from a vulnerable ... San Jose Murky News

The International Atomic Energy Agency secretly completed the removal of 40 kilograms of highly enriched uranium from a nuclear reactor ... IHT

Russia has taken back dozens of kilograms of highly enriched spent uranium from a reactor built with Soviet assistance in ... RIA Novosti

The Department of Energy has moved 90 pounds of highly enriched uranium from a research facility ... WSJ

The US yesterday removed nearly 100 pounds of weapons-grade uranium from a research reactor in Poland, one of the largest recoveries yet of material that could ... MOSNEWS

Poland has returned to Russia close to 40 kg (88 pounds) of highly enriched uranium, enough to make an atomic bomb, as part of a global ... Reuters

A facility that uses 20-80% 235 HEU, which is not exactly "weapons grade", 90% 235 would be, to make isotopes for cancer treatment, has been de-fueled. The Soviet Union built 17 HEU-fueled reactors abroad, and the spent fuel from these reactors is scheduled to return to Russian control by 2012-13. Over 900kg of spent HEU from Soviet-built plants in six countries: Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Libya, Latvia and Uzbekistan, has been returned to Russia, and down-blended to LEU.

Of course, it is more fun to tart up the copy and write "secretly" and "weapons grade" and "terrorists" and "gun-type device" than to write about a well-known IAEA coordinated de-fueling of research reactors built during the heyday of the "Atoms for Peace" competition between the US and the SU. A process that isn't without problems, which the authors, Soviet and American, of their respective "Atoms for Peace" program, didn't think through to the end.

There are at least 120 still-operating HEU-fueled reactors.

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