U.S., Kazakhstan complete secret transfer of nuclear materials

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Working under extraordinary secrecy, the U.S. and Kazakh governments in the past year have moved nuclear material that could have been used to make more than 770 bombs from a location feared vulnerable to terrorist attack to a new high-security facility.

In the largest such operation ever mounted, U.S. and Kazakh officials transferred 11 tons of highly enriched uranium and 3 tons of plutonium some 1,890 miles by rail and road across the Central Asian country.

The transfer culminated a project spanning three American presidencies that was intended to prevent the material from falling into the wrong hands.

The last of 12 shipments arrived Monday at the new state-of~the-art storage facility in remote northeastern Kazakhstan, near the border with Russia and China. The 13-day journey began at the mothballed BN-350 breeder reactor in the Caspian Sea port of Aktau. McClatchy Newspapers agreed to withhold the secret location of the storage site for security reasons.

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Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/16/2440769/us-kazakhstan-complete-secret.html

[No Elephants]

1. I'm confident nothing's amiss or ever will be.

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2. Some secret.

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3. Shhhsh --- don't tell