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Mudoria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 01:25 PM
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Deal reached on Mexican nuclear fuel issue
Source: CNN Wire

An agreement involving the United States, Canada and Mexico will help convert fuel at Mexico's nuclear research reactor to a lower grade of uranium unsuitable for nuclear weapons, the White House said Tuesday.

In a statement at the Nuclear Security Summit convened by President Obama, the White House said the highly enriched uranium fuel at the reactor would be converted to low enriched uranium, which would eliminate all highly enriched uranium in Mexico.

The International Atomic Energy Agency will oversee the project, according to the statement.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/13/obama.hu.nuclear.meeting/index.html?hpt=T2



The President at work ladies and Gentlemen.
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 01:29 PM
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1. Wow.
Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Chile

Full speed ahead.
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