The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has completed the removal of 13.5 kilograms of highly enriched uranium from Venezuela's dormant RV-1 research reactor at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) in Miranda state, working alongside the UK, the IAEA, and Venezuela's transitional government. The material, surplus since the reactor shut down in 1991, was transported overland to the port of Puerto Cabello and shipped to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina for reprocessing, in an operation carried out between 18 and 29 April. The extraction is significant both as a non-proliferation milestone and as a marker of shifting relations with Venezuela following the removal of Nicolás Maduro from power in January, though Caracas noted that urgency was partly driven by a U.S. military strike in January that landed roughly 50 metres from the former reactor site.