U.S. to take massive HEU stockpile stored in UK in ‘swap’ for LEU

摘要

Under an agreement that appears previouslyrnto have been kept secret, the UnitedrnKingdom Friday announced plans to shiprnabout 700 kilograms of excess unirradiatedrnhigh-enriched uranium from UK andrnEuropean research reactors and medicalrnisotope production reactors to the UnitedrnStates in return for high-density low-enrichedrnuranium for use in producing newrnmedical isotopes.