Anonymous 11/14/2019 (Thu) 23:58:57 No.36642 del
Digg on HEU [Highly-Enriched Uranium]
The USSR fell in 1991
The Megatons to Megawatts Program rose in 1993

The Megatons to Megawatts Program, successfully completed in December 2013, is the popular name given to the program
which is also called the United States-Russia Highly Enriched Uranium Purchase Agreement. The official name of the program
is the "Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the United States of America
Concerning the Disposition of Highly-Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons", dated February 18, 1993.[1] Under
this Agreement Russia agreed to supply the United States with low-enriched uranium (LEU), obtained from high- enriched
uranium (HEU) found to be in excess of Russian defense purposes. The United States agreed to purchase the low enriched uranium fuel.
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The Megatons to Megawatts program was initiated in 1993 and successfully completed in December 2013. A total of 500 tonnes
of Russian warhead grade HEU (high enriched uranium, equivalent to 20,008 nuclear warheads) were converted in Russia to nearly
15,000 tonnes tons of LEU (low enriched uranium) and sold to the US for use as fuel in American nuclear power plants. During the
20-year Megatons to Megawatts program, as much as 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States was generated by
fuel fabricated using LEU from Russian HEU.[6]

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