Soviet Nuclear Test Site Now A Model For Safeguards by Mike Shuster

Nobuhiro Muroya, the IAEA's senior official here, remarked on the irony of the region's history Thursday after the final seal was put in place.
"It is a coincidence that in this nuclear test site, it was more than 450 nuclear weapons tested. But this site is at the same time now very safe and very peaceful. And we would like this material to stay calm and peacefully for a long time," he said.

In This Series

Asia

Part 1: Kazakhstan Completes Move, Storage Of Nuclear Stash

Asia

Part 2: Moving Kazakh Nuclear Cache A Massive Undertaking

That is the intention of the U.S. and Kazakhstan governments. The storage casks are designed to last half a century.

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