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...barrels for shipment back to the U.S. to prevent the material from falling into the wrong hands. They had only a few weeks to perform the delicate procedure. The harsh Central Asian winter was coming, and once it arrived, it would be difficult to fly out of the desolate Kazakh site...
Last week the Kazakhstan inventory of uranium was half a ton lighter as officials in Washington and the Kazakh capital of Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata) announced that the team, after six weeks of feverish activity, had successfully moved the material to the Oak Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator...
...samples they brought back: the uranium was 90% enriched. "Saddam Hussein was trying very hard to get material of this kind," a senior Pentagon representative said. The mission that ended last week actually began more than , a year ago, when U.S. officials heard a disquieting report from Kazakh officials. The collapse of the Soviet Union, they said, had stranded about 1,300 lbs. of uranium at the sprawling Ulba Metallurgical Plant on the windswept steppes, 20 miles outside the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The material had been sent to the plant in the 1970s to be made into fuel rods...
After a series of meetings with U.S. representatives from the State Department, the Pentagon and the Department of Energy, the Kazakh government secretly asked the U.S. earlier this year to help rid the newly independent nation of its unwanted legacy. Protecting the uranium was a financial drain on the country, it said. Furthermore, Kazakhstan has pledged to be nuclear free by the turn of the century...
...here, on the steppes of Central Asia, that Chevron has staked much of its future and doubled its potential worldwide oil reserves by the stroke of a pen on a contract. Over the next 40 years, the company and the Kazakh government plan to invest $20 billion to develop the vast Tengiz field near the Caspian Sea, which contains some of the richest sources of oil and gas on earth. So deep are the deposits that geologists have yet to find the bottom. The oil-saturated rock formations are "two or three times the thickness of anywhere else...