WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — President Barack Obama has terminated the national emergency related to the disposition of weapons-usable fissile material in Russia, the White House announced on Tuesday.
“I have determined that the situation that gave rise to this national emergency has been significantly altered by the successful implementation of the Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation Concerning the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons,” Obama stated in an Executive Order.
Russia transferred the low-enriched uranium to the United States for use as fuel in commercial nuclear reactors.
The Megatons to Megawatts agreement, also known as the HEU-LEU agreement, aimed to convert 500 metric tons of high-enriched uranium (HEU) from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium (LEU).
The sum is the equivalent of approximately 20,000 nuclear warheads.
