Hand-out/Southern Company Save for later Print Download Share LinkedIn Twitter The US Department of Energy (DOE) is under fire from nonproliferation experts and former government officials over its plans to use weapons-grade highly-enriched uranium (HEU) in a reactor test bed meant to provide data for the commercialization of Terrapower's molten chloride fast reactor, which will use high-assay low-enriched uranium (Haleu). The nonproliferation cohort argued in a May 30 letter that the use of HEU in the test bed to be developed at Idaho National Laboratory — the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) — contradicts the decades-long US policy of minimizing HEU availability both domestically and abroad.
