US helps transport uranium from Czech research facility.

American specialists were instrumental in retrieving 68 kilograms of highly enriched uranium from the Czech Republic and bringing it to Russia where it will be turned into low-enriched uranium and used as fuel for nuclear reactors. The United States paid for the transportation of the uranium, which was produced at the research reactor in the town of Řež near Prague. The Czech authorities provided the containers.

Author: Masha Volynsky