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\n Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with a team of technical experts at a national laboratory in Tennessee on Thursday, a US official said, as the US works toward nuclear negotiations with Iran.\n <\/p>\n
\n The visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, first reported by Axios,<\/a> comes amid ongoing diplomatic negotiations with Tehran aimed, in large part, at constraining Iran\u2019s nuclear program.\n <\/p>\n \n Scott Roecker, the vice president for the Nuclear Threat Initiative\u2019s Nuclear Materials Security Program, explained that the lab has a history of removing highly enriched uranium around the world.\n <\/p>\n \n It has both the expertise and the capabilities, in the form of a Mobile Uranium Facility, to safely handle, convert, and ship the highly enriched uranium, Roecker told CNN. However, he noted that nobody in the US has experience in retrieving buried stockpiles of uranium.\n <\/p>\n \n The June 2025 US strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities, what the Pentagon termed Operation Midnight Hammer, were assessed by US intelligence to have buried much of Iran\u2019s highly enriched uranium stockpile at the Isfahan nuclear complex, but didn\u2019t destroy it<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n The visit does not mean that an agreement with Iran is imminent. However, Roecker called it \u201can encouraging sign, because at some point in these negotiations, I believe we needed to have the experts of the US government involved.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier this week that negotiations on Iran\u2019s nuclear program would be \u201chighly technical\u201d and could take months.\n <\/p>\n![\"Tyler](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ap25196768222191a.JPG\")
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