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Y-12 Ships Too Much Uranium-235

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Cheryl Rofer

In July, Oak Ridge’s Y-12 National Security Complex shipped too much highly enriched uranium. Frank Munger has the story. It was ten times too much. That breached the rules for shipping “special nuclear material” – material that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Read More

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