Low-enriched uranium bank will be ready to operate by September, IAEA says

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The IAEA’s low-enriched uranium bank in Kazakhstan will be ready tornoperate and provide fuel supply security by September, in line with arnschedule outlined last June, an IAEA spokesman confirmed in anrnemail May 18.rnThe LEU bank, which will have the capacity to store up torn90 metric tons of LEU, will “act as a supplier of last resort” for IAEArnmember states that cannot obtain LEU on the global market. ThernIAEA has said the facility will “not disrupt the commercial market.”