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U.S. to Receive Canadian HEU Waste
A heavily guarded shipment of bomb-grade uranium waste is due to make its way from a Canadian medical isotope production site near Ottawa to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the Ottawa Citizen reported on Sunday.
A number of watchdog organizations have voiced concern over plans to move highly enriched uranium -- apparently taken from the Fissile Solution Storage Tank at the Chalk River site -- in liquid form for the first time. The material would require close management to ensure it does not start a potentially hazardous chain reaction.
The Savannah River Site will convert the material into low-enriched reactor fuel.
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Civilian HEU Reduction and Elimination Resource Collection
March 25, 2013
This collection examines civilian HEU reduction and elimination efforts. It discusses why the continued widespread use, internationally, of HEU in the civilian sector poses global security risks, provides an overview of progress to-date in reducing and eliminating the use of HEU in the civilian sector worldwide, and examines remaining challenges to achieving this goal. The collection also includes detailed analysis of progress in eight key countries.
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Civilian HEU: France
March 20, 2013
The article is part of a collection examining civilian HEU reduction and elimination efforts. It details current French HEU policies, progress reducing and eliminating the civil use of HEU in France, and remaining challenges.
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