By RIA Novosti
Moscow : Vietnam has returned about four kilograms of highly enriched uranium to Russia, nuclear power agency Rosatom said Monday.
“An operation to return 3.9 kg of highly enriched nuclear fuel (enriched to 36 percent U-235) from a research reactor in the city of Dalat, Vietnam, has been completed,” the agency said in a press release.
In accordance with a Russian-US inter-governmental agreement, the two countries are obliged to repossess highly enriched nuclear fuel that they have supplied to third countries for research purposes. The countries have withdrawn over 500 kg of highly enriched uranium from third countries since 2002.
Rosatom said the nuclear fuel from Vietnam would be blended down to low-enriched uranium, with a U-235 concentration of less than 20 percent.
The agency also said a shipment of low-enriched nuclear fuel had been delivered to Dalat from the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate Plant in Siberia.