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WASHINGTON — Enough processed uranium to make six nuclear weapons was secretly transported thousands of miles on a month-long trip from a research reactor in Budapest, Hungary, to a facility in Russia so it could be more closely protected, U.S. officials revealed Wednesday.
The shipment, conducted under tight secrecy, included a three-week trip by cargo ship through the Mediterranean, up the English Channel and the North Sea to Russia’s Arctic seaport of Murmansk.
The 341 pounds of weapons- usable uranium arrived by rail at the secure nuclear-material facility at Mayak in Siberia on Wednesday, said Kenneth Baker, a National Nuclear Security Administration official who oversaw the project.
