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2002 Serbia Special Weapons News



  • Abraham Hails Cooperation in Removing Uranium from Belgrade Washington File 26 Aug 2002-- The successful transfer of highly enriched weapons-quality uranium from the Vinca nuclear reactor near Belgrade to a facility in Russia on August 22 represents "important forward progress for both U.S. and international nuclear nonproliferation efforts," said Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, adding that this cooperation "greatly reduces the risk that such material can be used as a terrorist weapon."
  • BOMB-GRADE URANIUM VOA 23 Aug 2002-- A combined U-S, Russian and Serbian operation retrieved weapons grade uranium from a nuclear facility in Serbia (Thursday).
  • U-S / RUSSIA NUCLEAR VOA 23 Aug 2002-- Bush administration officials say a dangerous stockpile of weapons-grade uranium has been safely evacuated from Yugoslavia to Russia -- in an operation conducted jointly by U-S and Russian experts. The 50-kilograms of uranium is said to have been enough to make two or three nuclear weapons
  • YUGOSLAVIA / URANIUM VOA 23 Aug 2002-- Yugoslavia has returned to Russia enough weapons-grade uranium to make at least two nuclear bombs.
  • Enriched Uranium Moved from Serbia to Russian Facility Washington File 23 Aug 2002-- The successful transfer of highly enriched weapons-quality uranium from the Vinca nuclear reactor near Belgrade to a facility in Russia August 22 was an unprecedented multinational cooperative effort, according to State Department Deputy Spokesman Philip Reeker.
  • "Project Vinca" Moved Enriched Uranium from Serbia to Russia Washington File 23 Aug 2002-- The State Department issued the following fact sheet August 23 describing "Project Vinca" -- the cooperative anti-terrorism effort by the United States, Russia, Serbia, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the private Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) -- in which a load of highly enriched uranium was removed from a research reactor near Belgrade and transported safely to a facility in Dmitrovgrad, Russia, where it will be processed for use as commercial reactor fuel



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