Russia, U.S. to sign deal on plutonium

[SpartanDem]

Source: WaPo

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia and the United States will sign a deal on Tuesday on reducing stocks of weapons-grade plutonium, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Under the agreement, each country is to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium removed from military programs by burning it in reactors, U.S. officials said.

The United States and Russia initially reached a similar deal on plutonium disposal in 2000 but it never went into force.

The planned signing during a global nuclear security summit comes after Russia President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama signed the "New START" treaty committing the Cold War foes to reducing their deployed nuclear arsenals.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/12/AR2010041201580.html

[awoke_in_2003]

1. this is good...

but how, exactly, do you dispose of plutonium?

[gcomeau]

2. Ahem...

"Under the agreement, each country is to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium removed from military programs by burning it in reactors, U.S. officials said."

[bulloney]

3. Palin expresses fake outrage over the deal in 3...2...1..