Word: urenco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light after a quiet scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, resigned in March 1976 from his post as a metallurgist at the Physical Dynamics Research Laboratory, known as F.D.O., in Amsterdam. The firm was involved in research and development at one of Western Europe's most advanced atomic installations, the URENCO uranium-enrichment facility at Almelo, also in the Netherlands. The plant is today one of Western Europe's major sources of low-enriched uranium for nuclear reactors. High-speed gas centrifuges like those at URENCO -- thousands of devices lined up in rows like washing machines in a laundromat -- can also...