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Last HEU is removed from Libya

  • December 21, 2009
Libya sent its last HEU containing reactor fuel to Russia. The shipment, which reportedly contained 5.2 kg of HEU in spent fuel, was not announced until November 2010, when it was described in an Atlantic magazine story. 
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