Nuclear clean-up
The BBC’s security correspondent, Gordon Corera, followed a secret convoy transporting spent fuel from a poorly secured decommissioned nuclear reactor in Serbia to a reprocessing facility in Russia. It’s part of a larger effort to remove nuclear material insecure locations around the world and send it back to either the US or Russia for reprocessing.
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