{"id":449348,"date":"2026-02-04T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449348\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:52:07","slug":"making-america-safer-nnsa-removed-68-radioactive-devices-in-2025-strengthening-u-s-radiological-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449348\/","title":{"rendered":"Making America safer: NNSA removed 68 radioactive devices in 2025, strengthening U.S. radiological security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We value our partnership with NNSA and are proud to protect our university, our state, and our country,\u201d said Mridul Gautam, UNR\u2019s Vice President for Research and Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>During the year, ORS worked with 60 volunteer sites across 30 states to plan for these complex removals, a feat that required extensive coordination with partner facilities, state radiation regulators, U.S. National Laboratories, local law enforcement, and other key stakeholders. Each operation involved months to years of meticulous planning to ensure the safe and secure removal and transport of the radioactive sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNNSA could not have achieved this key part of our national security mission without local governments, businesses, and law enforcement partners,\u201d said Christine Bent, Assistant Deputy Administrator for Global Material Security. \u201cThese partnerships have allowed us to reduce radiological risks across the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We value our partnership with NNSA and are proud to protect our university, our state, and our country,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-449348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}