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Poland has returned 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of highly-enriched uranium from one of its nuclear research reactors to Russia, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday.

The two-day operation which ended Wednesday and was conducted jointly by the United States, Poland, Russia and the UN atomic watchdog IAEA, was “another critical step towards enhancing the security of fissile material, by eliminating stockpiles of HEU,” IAEA project manager Arnaud Atger said.

The highly enriched uranium (HEU), originally supplied to Poland by Moscow, was sent to a secure facility near Novosibirsk, central Russia, where it will be downgraded to low-enriched uranium which cannot be used in bombs.

Source:www.khaleejtimes.com