Uranium Primer - US-Russian Highly Enriched Uranium Agreement

The US-Russian HEU Agreement (officially termed the “Megatons to Megawatts Program”) is a unique government-industry partnership, under which Russia is dismantling a portion of its old Soviet-era nuclear warheads, removing the highly enriched uranium (HEU) and blending this material with uranium of lower U-235 enrichment levels to produce commercial-grade, low-enriched uranium (LEU) for use in nuclear power plants.

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