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A shipment of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) from South Africa's Safari 1 research reactor has been returned to the USA. It is the latest milestone in the reactor's conversion to using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel.

Producers, governments and other participants in the global supply chain of molybdenum-99 must act to address an unstable economic structure that is threatening long-term security of supply of the vital medical radioisotope, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has warned.