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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ukraine-returns-uranium-to-russia.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Nuclear fuels pins are loaded into a container, in Sevastopol, Ukraine (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-ukraine-returns-uranium-to-russia.jpg" alt="Nuclear fuels pins are loaded into a container, in Sevastopol, Ukraine (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine return to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs.</p>
<p>This week&#8217;s removal of more than 110lb (50kg) of highly enriched uranium followed a pledge by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to get rid of all of his country&#8217;s highly enriched uranium by April 2012.</p>
<p>The material will be blended down in Russia, rendering it useless for bomb making.</p>
<p>Details of the operation were provided by the National Nuclear Safety Administration.</p>
<p>Mr Yanukovych agreed to give up the uranium in a deal announced at a nuclear security summit hosted by President Barack Obama in April.</p>
<p>As an incentive, the United States is providing replacement low-enriched uranium that can be used for Ukraine&#8217;s research reactors.</p>
<p>The summit deal also has the United States building a 25 million US dollar &#8220;neutron source facility&#8221; nuclear research project for Ukraine, the administration said.</p>
<p>The facility will be able to produce 50 different types of medical isotopes, using only low-enriched uranium.</p>
<p>The US nuclear administration&#8217;s chief, Thomas D&#8217;Agostino, called the uranium removal operation an important step toward Mr Obama&#8217;s goal of securing the world&#8217;s nuclear material within four years.</p>
<p>He praised Ukraine for helping ensure its bomb-making material would not fall &#8220;into the wrong hands&#8221;.</p>
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