Small HEU shipment licensed for South Korea's Kijang reactor

On 18 December 2025, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license XSNM3854, which allows Mirion Technologies, a US company, to export "0.00462 kg of HEU, enriched to up to 93%, containing 0.00432 kg of uranium-235." The material is contained in six assemblies that will be used for monitoring of thermal neutron flux radiation in Kijang research reactor.