The world is successfully erasing its stockpile of weapons-grade fuel
International teams are quietly scouring the globe to secure enough weapons-grade fuel to build hundreds of nuclear bombs, turning high-risk research sites into harmless power plants.
Deep in a Venezuelan research facility, a specialized team recently extracted 13.5 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, a material so potent it serves as the primary ingredient for nuclear weapons. This fuel had powered the RV-1 reactor since 1960, a relic of a Cold War era when nations freely shared nuclear technology for peaceful research without fully weighing the risks of theft or misuse. By removing this specific cache, the International Atomic Energy Agency effectively deleted a potential target for non-state actors, replacing the dangerous fuel with a low-enriched version that is physically incapable of sustaining a nuclear explosion.