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The National Nuclear Security Administration and the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant have been busy this summer obtaining export licenses from the NRC and apparently shipping small quantities of highly enriched uranium (92.95 percent U-235) around the world for some sort of nuclear smuggling exercise.
Pieces of the applications and correspondence are publicly viewable at the NRC's online document system, but the NNSA isn't saying much beyond what's there. I asked about the export requests a couple of months ago,Soccer Cleats Sale, and this week I received a much-belated response from Steven Wyatt, a federal spokesman at Y-12:
"Y-12 is supplying small quantities of enriched uranium to certain foreign and domestic laboratories in support of the Nuclear Smuggling International Technical Working Group,Isabel Marant Outlet Online. The samples will be distributed to support an analytical exercise associated with nuclear forensics analysis. No other information regarding these shipments is available for public release other than what is already contained on the NRC export licenses required for these shipments."
One piece of correspondence covering several applications indicated that the HEU samples were sent to Australia, Brazil,Nike Air Max Sale, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, and the United Kingdom. "The uranium will be used exclusively for the sample analysis exercise under a contract between each government and DOE,kobe8venicebeach.webs.com," the letter said.
Another letter from Becky Eddy of the NNSA office at Y-12 said each foreign lab was to get a maximum of 14 grams of uranium, with those shipments to be executed by early September. Other information indicated that the material would be destroyed during the analytical exercise. |
