US removes all enriched uranium from Venezuela reactor, ships materials to SC in major nuclear security op
The United States and its partners have completed the removal of all remaining enriched uranium from an old research reactor. VenezuelanThe Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration announced Friday.
“For decades, the RV-1 reactor supported physics and nuclear research. When this work ended in 1991, uranium enriched above the critical 20 percent threshold became residual material,” NNSA said.
The administration said NNSA’s Defense Office of Nonproliferation (DNN) team and technical experts from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research “safely removed 13.5 kilograms (about 30 pounds) of uranium from the RV-1 reactor.” “We work in close cooperation with the IAEA” [International Atomic Energy Agency] “The team safely packaged the uranium into a spent fuel drum.”
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The material was then transported to the center. We, NNSA noted where it would be processed and reused.
“The group then escorted the material 100 miles overland to a Venezuelan port. There, they transferred the cargo to a dedicated carrier provided by UK Nuclear Transport Solutions,” the announcement said. “The ship carried the material to the port” United States It arrives on US shores in early May. “Upon arrival, U.S. teams unloaded the barrels and transported them to the Savannah River Site (SRS) for processing and reuse.”
SRS is located in the state of South Carolina near Augusta, Georgia.
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“DOE’s Office of Environmental Management has placed the material under surveillance at SRS. There, technicians will process the material at the H-Canyon chemical separation facility to obtain highly analyzed, low-enriched uranium for America’s nuclear renaissance,” NNSA said.
The move came months after the President Donald Trump In early January, he ordered a US military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
U.S. President Donald Trump stands during a military mothers celebration in the East Room of the White House on May 6, 2026 in Washington, D.C.
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“The safe removal of all enriched uranium from Venezuela sends another signal to the world for a restored and renewed Venezuela,” NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams said in a statement. he said. “Thanks to President Trump’s determined leadership, special teams on the ground completed a job in months that would normally take years.”
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