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Adil Tuleushev, director of Kazakhstan's Institute of Nuclear Physics, shakes hands with American-Ukrainian physicist Igor Bolshinsky as an armoured train carrying highly enriched uranium pulls away from Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the radioactive substance will be brought to Russia for downgrading. .The removal of Kazakhstan's highly enriched uranium (HEU) is part of the U.S. Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), where Igor Bolshinsky and Kelly Cummins work, that tries to secure nuclear material around the world to prevent their misuse by terrorists and rogue states.

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Adil Tuleushev, director of Kazakhstan's Institute of Nuclear Physics, shakes hands with American-Ukrainian physicist Igor Bolshinsky as an armoured train carrying highly enriched uranium pulls away from Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the radioactive substance will be brought to Russia for downgrading. .The removal of Kazakhstan's highly enriched uranium (HEU) is part of the U.S. Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), where Igor Bolshinsky and Kelly Cummins work, that tries to secure nuclear material around the world to prevent their misuse by terrorists and rogue states.