Venezuela turns over 13.5 kg of highly-enriched uranium to the US

[JGalt]

Not that they were necessarily going to use it to make a bomb, but being above 20% enrichment, it could have been used to make one if they had more.

United States Completes Accelerated Mission to Remove Highly Enriched Uranium from Venezuela​

"The United States, in partnership with Venezuela and the United Kingdom and with technical support from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), successfully removed excess highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Venezuela’s shuttered RV-1 research reactor. The RV-1 was the country’s first and only nuclear reactor, originally built for peaceful scientific research and later repurposed for gamma-ray sterilization of medical supplies, food, and other materials. With the leadership and expertise of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the U.S. achieved this key nuclear security milestone in a matter of months, and more than two years faster than originally planned."

Technical Difficulties

 

[shockedcanadian]

Not that they were necessarily going to use it to make a bomb, but being above 20% enrichment, it could have been used to make one if they had more.

United States Completes Accelerated Mission to Remove Highly Enriched Uranium from Venezuela​

"The United States, in partnership with Venezuela and the United Kingdom and with technical support from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), successfully removed excess highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Venezuela’s shuttered RV-1 research reactor. The RV-1 was the country’s first and only nuclear reactor, originally built for peaceful scientific research and later repurposed for gamma-ray sterilization of medical supplies, food, and other materials. With the leadership and expertise of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the U.S. achieved this key nuclear security milestone in a matter of months, and more than two years faster than originally planned."

Technical Difficulties

It's a start I guess.

 

[Darkwind]

The world is beginning to get a different look at the status quo.

 

[my2¢]

I wonder what it would have been worth on the open market.

 

[odanny]

Sure they did.