MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency has delivered 14kg of low-enriched uranium to Libya, the agency said Friday.
The fuel is meant as a substitute for the highly enriched uranium fuel brought from Libya on March 8, 2004. The low-enriched uranium was produced by the Novosibirsk chemical concentrate plant in Siberia, currently being integrated into the TVEL Corporation, a leading world manufacturer of nuclear fuel, the agency said.
The uranium will be used at the Tajura research reactor, the agency said.
The nuclear fuel was delivered under a Russian-U.S. intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the repatriation of spent nuclear fuel of research reactors.
The program for transferring research reactors to low-enriched fuel is designed to reduce the potential threat of the use of radioactive materials for terrorist goals, the agency said.
