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U.S., Canada Complete Nuclear Material Shipping Campaign
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited President and CEO Richard Sexton. Screenshot/LADP
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Material had been used to create life-saving medicines
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) announced the completion of a multi-year campaign to repatriate 161 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) liquid target residue material from Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, Canada, to the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.
The shipping campaign, which began in 2017 and finished in 2020, involved 115 separate truck shipments. Over the four years of the campaign, the shipments covered approximately 150,000 miles of safe and secure transportation, equivalent to traveling around the earth six times. (To learn more about how the partners accomplished this, click here.)
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