Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), spoke this week at the Second International Symposium on Insider Threat Mitigation in Brussels, which the nuclear-weapons agency co-hosted with the Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear Control.
The NNSA posted Hruby’s prepared remarks online.
During the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors’ meeting this week in Vienna, the U.S. called on Iran to cease enrichment of uranium to 60% of the uranium-235 isotope and to down blend its entire existing stockpile of such highly enriched uranium.
Laura Holgate, the U.S. ambassador to the Vienna Office of the United Nations and to the International Atomic Energy Agency, delivered the U.S. demand in one of several statements to the board this week. Holgate also called on Russia to return control of the besieged Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine to Ukrainians. There have been no Ukrainian staff at the plant, in southeastern Ukraine on the southern bank of the Dnipro River, since February, Holgate said in another statement to the board. The meeting ran from Monday through Friday.
Amir Vexler, chief executive officer of Centrus Energy Corp., rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
The New York Stock Exchange invited Vexler to ring the bell “to celebrate the launch of the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, the first U.S.-owned uranium enrichment plant to begin production in 70 years,” according to a press release from the exchange. The exchange also posted a video of the bell-ringing to YouTube.
Vexler took over as CEO in January, when Dan Poneman, the longtime chief executive officer, retired.
