US Complete Warheads-for-Fuel Program

[dipsydoodle]

Source: RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) – The United States has completed payments under a historic agreement providing for the import of Russian highly-enriched uranium for electricity production, Russia’s state-owned uranium producer and trader Techsnabexport said Monday.

“We received the final payment from the United States Enrichment Corporation in March,” the company said, adding that its obligations under a contract for low-enriched uranium ended late last year.

The last shipment of Russian uranium from nuclear warheads converted to reactor fuel arrived in Baltimore by sea in early December, ending a program that has provided 10 percent of all US electricity over the past 15 years.

The Megatons to Megawatts agreement (also known as the HEU-LEU agreement) aimed to convert 500 metric tons of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) – the equivalent of approximately 20,000 nuclear warheads – from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium (LEU), which was then converted into fuel for use in US nuclear power plants.

Read more: http://en.ria.ru/world/20140407/189090332/Russia-US-Complete-Warheads-for-Fuel-Program.html

[cosmicone]

1. A classic example of a win-win situation

through diplomacy and negotiations.

Why in the world do we opt for sabre-rattling in the interests of the MIC, oil companies, PNAC and Pax Americana is beyond me.

[longship]

2. This was a very shrewd compact w/ Russia.

Even if one is against nuclear power. It took weapons grade uranium out of the hands of possible terrorists. That's true even if one thinks there was little danger for a terrorist nuke attack. When the USSR broke up, this was the best thing that happened. Russia maintained control of the weapons and both USA and Russia turned them into nuclear power fuel. Even if it is never used for that purpose, at least it took it off the terrorist market.

R&K

[AverageJoe90]

3. Thank you, Bill Clinton! nt