U.S. HEU Shipment Reaches France

U.S. HEU Shipment Reaches France

A shipment of more than 400 pounds of U.S. highly enriched uranium has made it to France, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported on Tuesday (see GSN, April 3).
"The uranium was delivered," National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman Steven Wyatt confirmed.
The nuclear weapon-usable material from the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee will be converted to power the High Flux Reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, the newspaper previously reported.
"For security reasons, we cannot discuss the mode of transportation or any other specific details regarding this shipment," Wyatt stated by e-mail (Frank Munger, Knoxville News Sentinel, April 3).