Russia to airlift bomb-grade uranium from Germany
Russian experts will airlift 300 kg (660 pounds) of enriched uranium, much of it weapons-grade, from a Soviet-era nuclear research reactor in eastern Germany back to Russia, officials said on Wednesday. “We cannot release the precise date due to security reasons,” said a nuclear official in Germany acquainted with plans to remove 200 kg of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) and 100 kg of low-enriched uranium from the research reactor in Rossendorf, outside Dresden. Full Story