Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is usually regarded as the fissile material most desirable to terrorists, given the relative ease with which it could be used to manufacture a simple nuclear explosive ...

I welcome the initiative of the Government of Norway to bring together, for the first time, such a wide spectrum of representatives of concerned governments, nuclear industry, the nuclear research ...

[NNSA, 19 September] South Korea has become the 12th country to completely remove all US-origin high-enriched uranium (HEU) research reactor fuel, the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA ...

Rossendorf, Germany --The IAEA today supported the largest ever return of highly enriched uranium from a civilian research reactor back to Russia. At the end of a five-day operation, 268 kg of fresh ...

Worldwide supplies of molybdenum-99 made without using highly enriched uranium are now sufficient for the USA to ban exports of HEU material for foreign medical isotope production. (Image: Angelique ...

Thirty-five years ago, Washington launched a program to minimize the civilian use of highly enriched uranium (HEU)—a terrorist’s material of choice for constructing nuclear weapons. Though the program ...

The final shipment of HEU TRM leaves the Chalk River Laboratories site. CHALK RIVER, Ontario, Jan. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science ...

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to remove highly enriched uranium (called HEU) from "vulnerable research reactor sites around the world, assist in the conversion process, ...