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Goal 6: Anticipate threats with science and technology: Achievement 13

ACHIEVEMENT

Goal 6: Anticipate threats with science and technology: Achievement 13

Plutonium sealed sources of U.S. origin repatriated

Plutonium-239 and -238 sealed sources of U.S. origin were repatriated from Italy and Brazil through NNSA's Off-Site Source Recovery Project (OSRP) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The OSRP also repatriated U.S.-origin source-containing devices for the first time.

OSRP teams packages hundreds of U.S.-origin sealed sources and disassembled source-containing devices in Chile, Denmark, and Sweden, as well as answered requests from Germany, Israel, and Switzerland for future repatriation of U.S.-origin sealed sources.

Additional nations in negotiation for or already scheduling retrievals include Nigeria, Austria, Peru, Jordan, Tunisia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.



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