Source: US News & World Report
“Russia’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from thousands of Cold War nuclear warheads. The Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA), signed in 2000, committed both the United States and Russia to dispose of at least 34 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium each, which U.S. officials said would have been enough for as many as 17,000 nuclear warheads. It came into force in 2011. … The aim of the PMDA was to dispose of the weapons-grade plutonium by converting it into safer forms – such as mixed oxide (MOX) fuel or by irradiating plutonium in fast-neutron reactors for electricity production.” (10/08/25)