The continued presence of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian installations such as research reactors poses a threat to national and international security. This report assesses the status of ...

There are approximately 1,440 tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in the world today. Because this material might be stolen by terrorists seeking to build a nuclear weapon, efforts are underway to ...

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 ...

Radiation monitors at U.S. ports cannot reliably detect highly enriched uranium, which onshore terrorists could assemble into a nuclear bomb Customs inspectors at a pier in New York City send a sealed ...

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, ...

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 ...

A second campaign to repatriate high-enriched uranium 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 ...