Three more kilograms of weapons-capable highly enriched uranium have been removed from Libya, US officials said today.
That brings to 20 kilograms the total put under international control since the country abandoned its nuclear arms programme in 2003, the officials said.
The recent two-day operation was carried out by Russia, the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and the UN watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The latest shipment was part of a process to remove all Russian-origin highly enriched uranium material from Libya. The US agency did not say how much was left.
A report on Monday by the Libyan news agency quoted leader Col Muammar Gadafy as saying Libya at one stage came close to building a nuclear bomb.
But a US official who deals with nonproliferation issues said the claim was "not credible".