Five hundred metric tons of uranium cores once found in 20,000 Soviet Union warheads have been converted into nuclear fuel and shipped to the U.S. for the past 20 years. However, that ends Tuesday after the final shipment is delivered to a port in Baltimore, Md., at which point the Russian-supplied portion of U.S. atomic energy will begin to dwindle from 50% to 20%, according to The New York Times.
The deal, called Megatons to Megawatts, earned Russia $13 billion and supplied 10% of America’s electricity. Moreover, it cut down the number of nuclear bombs in the world — 17,300 weapons remain, 16,200 of which belong to the Cold War adversaries. Of those, the two nations each have around 2,000 warheads that can be launched right now, but they’ve pledged to lower that number to 1,550 by 2018, leaving the door open for more Russian shipments to America. Such a plan, though, may never materialize. Read more…
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