Secret nuclear cargo along coast of Norway

Despite cold political climate, the U.S. and Russia cooperated on a secret September voyage with Highly-enriched uranium from Poland to Murmansk. Norwegian radiation authorities not informed before the vessel sailed into its economical zone.


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The U.S.– Russian cooperation is a part of the global campaign to reduce the threat of materials that could serve to provide unwanted non-governmental groups or states with the nuclear bomb.

Without naming the voyage to Murmansk earlier in September, U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, says to Reuters this week that “we have just moved more than 50 kilograms of Highly-enriched uranium from Poland, working cooperatively, to accomplish that.

Russian officials were not immediately available for comments on the shipment.

In Murmansk, the cargo vessel “Mikhail Dudin” makes port call to Atomflot, the harbour of Russia’s civilian nuclear powered icebreaker fleet, some few kilometres north of the city centre. From Atomflot, the potential nuclear bomb material is transported by rail to Mayak in the South-Urals.

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