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UN watchdog agency assists safe removal of nuclear weapons-grade uranium
Czech Republic - As part of the ongoing battle to prevent nuclear proliferation and terrorism, the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has assisted the return from the Czech Republic to Russia of 14 kilogrammes of highly enriched uranium (HEU) that could be used to assemble a nuclear weapon.
The mission, completed last week, was a joint effort between the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United States, the Czech Republic and Russia, as part of the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), which seeks to identify, secure and recover high-risk vulnerable nuclear and radiological materials around the world.