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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has restarted depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion at its improved Portsmouth and Paducah facilities. Both of EM’s conversion plants that recycle DUF6 to safer and more beneficial products are back in business with improved safety and sustainability measures following a COVID-19 operational pause, DOE noted.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 29 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-restarts-duf6-conversion-10127089
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) says it has removed 45 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Japan and returned it to the USA. Fulfilling a commitment made at the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, NNSA and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) have removed all HEU from the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 13 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-removes-highly-enriched-uranium-from-japan-9924651
A second campaign to repatriate high-enriched uranium (HEU) from a research reactor in Japan to the USA has been completed, bringing to an end a three-year joint effort to transfer 45 kg of the material as part of shared non-proliferation goals.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 12 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Cooperative-effort-sees-Japanese-HEU-transfer-comp