The batch, of roughly 11 kilograms, was brought to Russia, September 10, as heavy loaded fuel assemblies of a water-moderated research reactor.
The fuel was dispatched for procession to the Nuclear Reactor Research Institute, based in Dimitrovgrad, the Ulyanovsk Region in the middle reaches of the Volga, and has reached the point of destination for today.
As the agency press service points out, the fuel was taken from Uzbekistan to Russia on an IAEA order. The trip was financed out of a US Department of Energy target grant on a global threat reduction initiative, which envisages preservation and/or removal of high-risk nuclear and radioactive materials and equipment endangering the world.
The Rosatom generally coordinated the operation, fifth of its kind involving companies subordinate to the agency.
Russia previously received fresh highly-enriched fuel from Yugoslavia, August 2002; Romania, September 2003; Bulgaria, December 2003; and Libya, March 2004.
