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Shipments mark an important step in carrying out Ukraine’s commitment at the Nuclear Security Summit to eliminate all of its HEU by 2012 - Edited By Tom Lamar - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the removal of 50 kilograms (111 pounds) of highly enriched...

Megatons to Megawatts on Schedule to Eliminate Equivalent of 20,000 Nuclear Warheads - Edited by Linton Levy - Nuclear Security Conference 2010 - USEC President and CEO John Welch has issued the following statement in support of President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit: “This...

The announcement comes just days ahead of the President’s Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC, during which leaders from more than 45 countries will gather to discuss the international effort to secure vulnerable nuclear materials around the world - By Stephen Heiser - The National...

“Successfully completing construction and then drastically reducing the time needed to transfer materials is a significant accomplishment for B&W Y-12 in supporting the NNSA’s mission of protecting the nation’s HEU supply,” - By Stephen Heiser - The new Highly Enriched...

Converting the plutonium to spent fuel is an essential step in U.S. efforts to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus weapon-grade plutonium withdrawn from the nuclear weapons program - By Linton Levy - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has signed an interagency agreement with the...

Project provides storage capacity for material in centralized area - By Stephen Heiser - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced that NNSA Administrator Thomas P. D'Agostino has authorized the start-up of the new Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility (HEUMF) at...

Using Alternative to Highly Enriched Uranium/Government Selects GEH to Develop U.S. Supply of Widely Used Isotope, Helping Address Shortage - By Stephen Heiser - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) announced today it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security...

“This shipment of HEU from Turkey represents a major step forward in NNSA’s ongoing efforts to implement President Obama’s unprecedented nuclear security agenda to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism," - By Linton Levy - The National Nuclear Security Administration today...

On schedule to finish downblending the equivalent of 20,000 nuclear warheads into commercial nuclear power plant fuel by the end of 2013 - By Stephen Heiser - USEC Inc. has announced that the Megatons to Megawatts program has eliminated the equivalent of 15,000 nuclear warheads, completing 75 percent...

Testified on the role the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2009 can play - By April Murelio - Dr. Parrish Staples, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Director of European and African Threat Reduction, yesterday testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee...

Experiments will determine how well civil reactors will run on 7 percent enriched Uranium fuel - By Linton Levy - Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Sandia Pulsed Reactor Facility 7 percent Critical Experiments has successfully completed the first series of critical experiments to support benchmarks...