Uranium & Fuel

US Secures Largest Ever Haleu Shipment To Power American Nuclear Industry

By David Dalton
8 May 2026

Material shipped from Japan following shutdown of Fast Critical Assembly

US Secures Largest Ever Haleu Shipment To Power American Nuclear Industry
Members of the Japanese team package Haleu at Japan’s Fast Critical Assembly. Courtesy DOE.
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the successful transfer of 1.7 metric tonnes of high-assay low-enriched uranium (Haleu) from Japan to the US – the largest single international shipment of uranium in NNSA’s history.

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