Before you take off to enjoy the long weekend, here is a shameless plug for the NTI/CNS Civilian HEU Reduction & Elimination pages, which we just updated to reflect the great progress made by the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, most notably, the completion of Soviet-origin HEU fuel removal from Latvia, announced last week. The Latvia removal brought the total up to about 603.7 kg of both spent and fresh HEU fuel (yes, you can check my math).

My favorite page is the Civil HEU Stock Map, which we also just updated (I made a handy factsheet [PDF] too). The IPFM also has a cool-looking HEU Inventory, but I tend to think that our map is a little more user-friendly. Of course, the GTRI Map [PDF] is also quite nice.

And, to conclude, here a neat picture of casks that were used during last year’s HEU removal from the Czech Republic. You should also make sure to watch this cool IAEA video that documents the Czech removal.