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Czech Republic returns Russian nuclear fuel

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MOSCOW, September 27 (RIA Novosti) - The Czech Technical University in Prague has returned 14kg of new (non-radiated) Russian nuclear fuel from its research reactor to Russia, the Russian nuclear power agency said Tuesday.

The nuclear fuel will soon be sent to the Nuclear Reactor Research Institute in Dimitrovgrad in central Russia "where [the fuel] will be converted into low-grade nuclear material and transported further to produce fuel assembly of power reactors at nuclear plants," the agency's press service said.

The fuel was brought into Russia in accordance with a Russian-U.S. 2004 intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in returning Russian nuclear fuel from research reactors to Russia.

It is the eighth operation of the kind carried out through the Russian nuclear power agency and its institutes. Russian high-grade new nuclear fuel has been returned from Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Libya, Uzbekistan, Latvia and the Czech Nuclear Research Institute.

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