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International Atomic Energy Agency is preparing for the opening of the Bank of uranium ... without customers


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International Atomic Energy Agency is preparing for the opening of the Bank of uranium ... without customers

12-07-2017 01:45 PM
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Oowskimn (Kazakhstan Reuters) - 

The International Atomic Energy Agency for the opening of the Bank of uranium in Kazakhstan, but they may not find him any customers. The uranium ore will be used in the storage of nuclear fuel and atomic bombs in an industrial facility dating back to the Soviet era was where security is lax , so that he was moved all the highly enriched uranium found at a US covert operation in 1994.


The goal of the IAEA and is preparing for the opening of the LEU bank in the city Oowskimn, is the same who was Washington's goal 23 years ago and is to prevent nuclear proliferation. But this time, uranium would not be enriched with the degree to which suitable for use in weapons, and in the best perceptions there will be no need to use the bank, which will cost $ 150 million.


Will be made available to the Member States of the IAEA «withdrawal» of low-enriched uranium at market prices if disrupted fuel supplies to one of the nuclear plants because of the «exceptional circumstances», but the bank will be will become the last resort.


The aim is to discourage countries from allocating time and money to develop nuclear enrichment technologies that could be used in purifying uranium to levels suitable for military use, as well as to deter states from trying to obtain uranium illegally.


The agency wants to have a way to ensure to avoid new conflict similar to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program before world powers to reach a deal with Tehran to curb its nuclear activities.


The founding director of the Center for Energy Studies and Security in Moscow Anton Khalopkov for the new bank, wondering: «Is not guaranteed establish new facilities for the enrichment of countries? Of course not ... but it creates additional incentives for new countries do not even evaluate the enrichment facilities. »


And it participated countries including the United States to finance the construction of the uranium bank in eastern Kazakhstan on almost 1,000 kilometers away from the capital Astana, as the American billionaire Warren Buffett took part in the amount of $ 50 million.


It will be stored up to 90 tons of low-enriched uranium, enough to run a light-water reactor to supply a large city with electricity for a period of three years. It will tighten security measures. It will be the Bank station of its own trains and surrounded by metal fence netting a height of about 3.5 meters and equipped with cameras and security surveillance.


Will be held Soran up three meters around the outer perimeter of the first bank of concrete and steel and the second metal nets and top of each barbed wire. The parade around members of the National Guard, the land surrounding the bank, along with their dogs.


In 1994, three years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States feared that criminals could steal enriched uranium by 90 or 91 percent saved in the store either to sell it to the state trying to acquire nuclear technology or its use in the manufacture of a nuclear bomb.


In October, a monthly (October) and November (November) of that year and with the approval of the Kazakh government, a team of US experts to secure 600 kilograms of radioactive uranium, an amount sufficient to manufacture 24 nuclear bomb and transported safely to the United States.


Those known process contributed as «Zephyr Project» in building the confidence of Kazakhstan, the former Soviet republic, which became independent in 1991 with the international community and paved the way for the decision of the International Agency for the establishment of the Bank. Also, Kazakhstan is a logical choice because it is the world's largest producer of uranium.


Will be the sixth storage of uranium hexafluoride, a solid waxy substance is highly toxic, ranging from white and gray colors used in the enrichment process, in 60 containers on a cylindrical shape. It can not convert this material directly into fuel because it is a process that takes months.

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