Three more kg (6.6 pounds) of weapons-capable highly enriched uranium have been removed from Libya, bringing to 20 kg (44 pounds) the total put under international control since the country abandoned its nuclear arms program in 2003, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The recent two-day operation was carried out by Russia, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and the U.N. watchdog agency, the
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