NNSA has reached separate bilateral agreements with partners in Japan and the Republic of Korea to cooperate under the Proliferation Resistance Optimization (PRO-X) program. The respective agreements were signed during NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby’s trip to the region.
President Biden and Prime Minister Kishida highlight their continued commitment to HEU minimization during Japan State Visit
Meet Rengin Gok. A seismologist by training, she now uses that knowledge to help NNSA monitor for secret underground nuclear blasts. (And she's trying to bring that strict methodology into playing her piano too.)
Meet Flora Lethbridge-Çejku. Whether you need someone to pull their weight in a scull or you happen to need uranium or plutonium safely packaged (a key #NNSA mission) she's the one to call.
Open your mind to all the possibilities, says NNSA's Novella Bridges, a radiochemist (and former basketball ref). Once a reluctant convert to the world of nuclear security, this plutonium expert now finds it exciting.
Meet Lyndsey Adams. When she's not working to make the world safer by disposing of plutonium, she's probably listening to a Taylor Swift song.
NNSA and the Belgian Federal Agency on Nuclear Control co-hosted the 2nd International Symposium on Insider Threat Mitigation in Brussels, Belgium March 5-7.
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Radiological Security and the Hungarian National Blood Transfusion Service celebrated the final replacement of Hungary’s high-activity cesium-137 blood irradiators with X-ray technology.
In 2022, Russian forces seized Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. We have analyzed the state of ZNPP using a variety of credible sources, and the facts do not support the narrative Russia has presented.
Nonproliferation Spotlight (Black History Month edition): Tony Walker