Nuclear issues in the ex-Soviet republics

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With the fall of the Soviet Union came a number of issues consolidating nuclear weaponry in Russia. With this accomplished, other safety issues still remain in the form of Soviet-built nuclear power reactors and nuclear waste. Armenia, Kazakhstan, Lituania and Ukraine are all still operating Soviet reactors, and have varying degrees of safety and storage standards.

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[ 22.04.2009 ]
Three arrested for trying to sell nuclear materials in Ukrainian sting operation
Three Ukrainians were arrested for seeking to sell a metal container of what they said contained some 3.7 kilograms pf plutonium-239 for a price of $10 million in a sting operation set up by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), security service officials said Monday.
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[ 20.08.2008 ]
US efforts In Georgia to contain nuclear theft being routed by Russian army
Continuing fighting between Russian and Georgian forces over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have plunged two crucial US-led anti-nuclear theft programmes into chaos, say officials with the US Department of Energy, which leads the nonproliferation and anti-nuclear smuggling efforts.
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[ 19.08.2008 ]
Russian fighting in Georgia putting area’s nuclear materials stocks in jeopardy for theft
When the breakaway region of Abkhazia split from Georgia in 1993, the world's only known case of enriched uranium going missing was reported after up to 2 kilograms of extremely dangerous material was stolen from the region's I. Vekua Institute of Physics and Technology in Sukhumi, which is not safeguarded by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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[ 05.02.2009 ]
IAEA might make decision on construction of nuclear research reactor in Azerbaijan

IAEA might adopt a decision on construction of nuclear research reactor in Azerbaijan and results will come out after talks, said Azerbaijani ambassador to OSCE Fuad Ismaylov, accredited in IAEA, reports Day.Az with reference to AzTV channel.

[ 05.02.2009 ]
Russia may build Belarus nuclear plant without tender

Russia will be able to build a nuclear power plant in Belarus without a tender once the two ex-Soviet republics sign inter governmental agreement on civilian nuclear power use.

[ 30.01.2009 ]
Russian Ukrainian talks on nuclear fuel near completion

RIA Novosti reported that Russian nuclear fuel supplies to Ukrainian nuclear power plants in 2009 are nearing completion.

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