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U.S., Russia Sign New Plutonium Disposal Agreement

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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

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By George Lobsenz At a nuclear security summit that yielded several other nonproliferation victories for President Obama, the United States and Russia signed a new agreement Tuesday that revives a 2000 plutonium disposal pact between the new countries by formally allowing Russia to use fast reactors to burn up the weapons-usable material--providing those facilities are modified to prevent the "breeding" of additional plutonium. The agreement appears to follow the lines of a preliminary deal negotiated by the Bush administration and…

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