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"Vinca" Institute of Nuclear Sciences

References

• 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

Links

• The Institute of Nuclear Sciences "Vinca"
• R-A REACTOR @ INSC Database
• R-B REACTOR @ INSC Database
• DoD News Briefing Saturday, May 29, 1999
• Nuclear Security: Monitoring of Serbia's Enriched Uranium to Resume New York Times 05 May 1999 -- International nuclear inspectors have decided to return to Yugoslavia to inspect the nuclear reactor at Vinca and to insure that all its highly enriched uranium is still in place after receiving a letter from the government in Belgrade on April 26 urging a resumption of inspections "as soon as possible."
• What about Yugoslavia's Nuclear Explosive Material? by David Albright, President Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) ISIS Policy Paper April 21, 1999 -- Should we worry about 60 kilograms of 80 percent highly enriched uranium at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science outside Belgrade being turned into nuclear weapons by a desperate Yugoslav government? There is enough material to make two nuclear weapons of the implosion-type design, or one of the simpler-to-make gun-type design. IAEA inspections could help deter Yugoslavia from diverting the highly enriched uranium and encourage it to protect the material better.
• IAEA Official Doubts FRY Capable of Building Nuclear Bomb Budapest MTI 1730 GMT 19 April 1999 -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) does not find it conceivable that Yugoslavia has begun to make a nuclear bomb.
• Nuclear Specter: Experts Fear War Accident Could Spread Lab Uranium New York Times 19 April 1999
• PROLIFERATION AND EXPLOSION DANGERS IN BELGRADE WISE NEWS COMMUNIQUE #468 14 March 1997