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Spent HEU fuel removed from Bulgaria

By Pavel Podvig on July 18, 2008 6:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

NNSA announced that all HEU fuel has been removed from Bulgaria after a shipment of 6.3 kg of spent fuel of the IRT-2000 research reactor to Russia. The shipment used three VPVR/M specialized transportation casks.

The fuel was delivered to Mayak, where it will be reprocessed.

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