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Article: New York, Oct 7 (PTI) As part of the ongoing battle to prevent nuclear proliferation, the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has assisted the return from the Czech Republic to Russia of 14 kilogrammes of highly enriched uranium that could be used to assemble a nuclear weapon.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- October 7, 2005
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The mission, completed last week, was a joint effort of 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.
The nuclear fuel was originally supplied to the Czech Republic by the former Soviet Union for use in a Russian designed multi-purpose research reactor operated at the Czech Technical University for education and training of physics and engineering students, officials said.
IAEA safeguard inspectors monitored ...