Venezuela revealed it carried out a secure operation to contain, extract, and transport by land and ship the remaining nuclear material from the RV-1 Experimental Reactor, which ended its operational cycle in 1991, after the level of risk increased following a U.S. military attack in January.
"The military attack carried out on Jan. 3, 2026, in the vicinity of the IVIC (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research) facilities, just 50 meters from the old reactor, objectively increased the level of risk and confirmed the urgency of executing an operation that Venezuela had been requesting for a long time," the government said in a statement.
