The uranium removed from the Tajura research reactor will be reprocessed in Russia into low-enriched uranium and later will be used as fuel for reactors at nuclear power plants.
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.
Russia is removing high-enriched uranium and spent nuclear fuels from its research reactors in other countries under the Russian-U.S. intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the repatriation of spent nuclear fuel from research reactors signed on May 27, 2004, and has already removed 188 kilograms, including spent nuclear fuel from Uzbekistan.
In December last year Russia delivered 14 kg of reprocessed low-enriched uranium for the Tajura reactor, which is expected to be put in operation with new low-enriched fuel within the next few months.
