"We think it is a very positive program for eliminating the possibility of this highly enriched uranium getting in the wrong hands," he said.
Highly enriched uranium can be used for making nuclear weapons.
Such a complex would make enough highly enriched uranium each year for about 10 nuclear weapons.
Every ton of highly enriched uranium can be used to make more than 100 nuclear bombs.
Energy Department officials say studies are under way that may result in even more of the highly enriched uranium being sent into the civilian market.
The material that may come to the country from Iraq is highly enriched uranium.
Even when reduced to a simple passage it was always a highly enriched feature.
Georgia took steps to reduce its supply of highly enriched uranium.
The highly enriched uranium fuel is being put into special drums.
The trio collection was highly enriched for white families (96% compared with 77% in the sibpair families).
Neurogranin is highly enriched in the superficial laminae.
At both of these membership cutoffs, this cluster was also highly enriched for the sequence recognized by the stress-responsive factors Msn2p and Msn4p.
It was created with the purpose of giving an education highly enriched in science and mathematics to exceptionally bright students.
Members of the miR-200 family are highly enriched in epithelial tissues.
Anything over 20 percent is considered highly enriched.
This fraction was also highly enriched in nuclear pore complexes, as evidenced by the enrichment of Nup62.
Human brain cell membranes are highly enriched with PS, as compared to other tissues.
For instance, brain and eye PS are highly enriched with Omega-3 fatty acids.
Fuel used for United States Navy reactors is typically highly enriched in uranium-235 (the exact values are classified).