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Article: Russia unveils U.S.-funded facility for unloading spent nuclear fuel from scrapped subs
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- AP Worldstream
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- August 23, 2002
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Dateline: MOSCOW
Russia unveiled a U.S.-funded facility for unloading spent nuclear
fuel from decommissioned submarines Friday. U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar
attended the ceremony at the Arctic port of Severodvinsk, the Interfax
news agency reported.
"Unloading spent nuclear fuel is the most complex issue in the disposal
of nuclear submarines," Nadezhda Shcherbinina, a spokeswoman for the