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WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Kazakhstan has agreed to downgrade its highly enriched uranium stocks and convert its nuclear reactor to lower grade uranium, the U.S. Energy Department says.
The agreement announced Friday follows Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev's pledge late last year to rid his country of the highly enriched uranium that can be used in nuclear weapons.
"This agreement represents another example of the kind of productive cooperation the United States and Kazakhstan have shared in furthering nuclear non-proliferation," U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman said.
The department's Global Threat Reduction Initiative will provide at least $4 million for the uranium project and conversion of the nation's HEU research reactor. The Nuclear Threat Initiative, which joined in the announcement, committed up to $1.3 million for new reactor controls and a system to enhance reactor safety and performance.
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