Supporting Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Ghana Converts Research Reactor from HEU to LEU Fuel

September 2, 2017 AFRICSIS Nuclear Security 0

Experts placing the used HEU core of Ghana’s Miniature Neutron Source Reactor into an interim transfer cask, August 2016. (S. Tozser/IAEA)
Experts placing the used HEU core of Ghana’s Miniature Neutron Source Reactor into an interim transfer cask, August 2016. (S. Tozser/IAEA)

Ghana has successfully completed the conversion of its only research reactor from the use of high enriched uranium (HEU) fuel to low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel, in an international project supported by the IAEA to help decrease the proliferation risks associated with HEU fuel.