The Associated Press
Monday, November 8, 2010; 5:19 PM
SAN DIEGO -- The U.S. government says it has removed nearly 132 pounds of spent nuclear fuel from a shuttered San Diego-area reactor that conducted research for nearly 40 years.
The National Nuclear Security Administration disclosed the removal Monday in a press release without revealing the name of the research facility.
The agency says nearly 60 kilograms of enriched uranium was moved during three weeks in August and September in three convoys to an unspecified secure federal facility nearly 1,000 miles from San Diego.
The nuclear agency says that at the time the reactor was built in the 1950s the area was remote but is now surrounded by San Diego suburbs. The reactor is now permanently shut down.
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