Ed Lyman, Frank Von Hippel et al: The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium. Recent promotion of new reactor technologies appears to disregard decades-old concerns about nuclear proliferation. Preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons has been a major thrust of international policymaking for more than 70 years. Now, an explosion of interest in a nuclear reactor fuel called high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), spurred by billions of dollars in US government funding, threatens to undermine that system of control. HALEU contains … read more »
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