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Another risk comes from the research reactors that the old Soviet Union (like America) supplied to its friends—and which are now packed with HEU. The Americans have helped recover unused uranium fuel from Kazakhstan, Georgia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Libya, Uzbekistan, the Czech Republic and Latvia. That still leaves more than 100 research reactors in 40 countries with more than 20kg of,kobe vi These might eventually be converted to run on lower enriched uranium, as has happened in the Czech Republic. There are plans afoot to recover spent fuel from other countries, too.
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