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NNSA partners with National Laboratories and universities to introduce engineering students to the field of international safeguards. Safeguards ensure that nuclear material and facilities are not used to illicitly manufacture nuclear weapons.

NNSA and its counterparts in France and Germany virtually hosted over 200 people from across the world in June to discuss and share about transitioning to alternative technologies that reduce global reliance on high-activity radioactive sources.

NNSA is responsible for removing and/or securing high-risk radioactive materials around the world that pose a potential threat. To support that mission, it developed mobile facilities to process and secure highly enriched uranium and plutonium.

Preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world and averting the use of radioactive materials by domestic and international criminal elements are major NNSA missions that Paloma Richard has contributed to since joining the agency in 2010.

Four researchers share their cutting-edge work in AI for national security.

EM has doubled the number of work shifts for employees in glovebox operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to advance DOE’s mission of removing plutonium from South Carolina.

NNSA experts have been making advances in support of international nuclear explosion monitoring and verification. At Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, two projects have recently made significant contributions toward this effort.