Offer 10% of the power of the United States of the Soviet-era nuclear warheads.

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Past 20 years provides 10 percent of Russia's decommissioned nuclear bomb-grade uranium, United States power. Actually, NPR report , ' nuclear materials worth 20,000 bomb ' is allowed, after the fall of the Soviet Union made deals that American forces need to exploit.

Philip Sewell was a deal, its Deputy Secretary Department of energy acted as intermediaries in the early 1990s. It was his work on finding ways to cooperate with Russia according to Sewell had collapsed as the global superpower. To get rid of the Sewell had to save the buildings abandoned in the countryside surplus nuclear weapons Russia Government saw opportunity. 1993, 500 Tons of nuclear material fuel is, in turn, to the power plant of the United States to be sold will be placed. Matthew Bunn, called the deal one of the biggest diplomatic achievements so far Harvard University Professor.

Warhead material storage facility today, in future years to the power company sold by a final shipment has arrived.

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Soviet-era nuclear warheads provide 10 percent of US electricity

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By Kwame Opam on December 11, 2013 09:48 am @kwameopam

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For the past 20 years, bomb-grade uranium from Russia's decommissioned nuclear weapons have provided 10 percent of all the electricity the US consumes. That fact, NPR reports, is the result a deal made after the fall of the Soviet Union, which allowed for "20,000 bombs' worth of nuclear material" to be repurposed for American power needs.

The deal was brokered in the early 1990s by Philip Sewell, then-deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy. According to Sewell, it was his job to find ways to collaborate with Russia, which had by then crumbled as a global power. The Russian government had been storing their surplus nuclear weapons in abandoned buildings in the countryside, and Sewell saw an opportunity to get rid of them. By 1993, an arrangement was made where 500 tons of nuclear material would be turned into fuel, which in turn would be sold to US power plants. Matthew Bunn, professor at Harvard University, called the deal one of the greatest diplomatic achievements ever.

The final shipment of warhead material arrives at a US storage facility today, to be sold of to power companies in years to come.

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