2.2: Weapons-Usable Material

Eliminate weapons-usable material by down blending it to a less concentrated form.

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Eliminating weapons-usable material by down blending it to a less concentrated form, low enriched uranium (LEU). An international nonproliferation program is destroying, or down blending, 400 metric tons of highly enriched uranium — equivalent to about 16,000 weapons in the Russian arsenal. As part of our material disposition efforts, Y‑12’s Highly Enriched Uranium Disposition Program Office provides technical support, program planning and implementation of the down blending of surplus highly enriched uranium (HEU) for the National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Fissile Materials Disposition.

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• Office of Fissile Materials Disposition: National Nuclear Security Administration

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