Aktau Port (IMAGE)

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Aktau Port

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Massive casks containing spent nuclear fuel from the Soviet-era reactor at the Caspian Sea port of Aktau. The casks were shipped from the reactor site to a location in northeast Kazakhstan.

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Image courtesy of the National Nuclear Security Administration.

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