Warheads Eliminated by Megatons to Megawatts

Warheads Eliminated by Megatons to Megawatts

The fuel generated to date could produce enough electricity to meet the demand for a city the size of Boston or Seattle for approximately 610 years and is the energy equivalent of more than 9.8 billion barrels of oil or nearly three years of U.S. crude oil imports.

by Staff Writers Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2010 USEC has announced that the Megatons to Megawatts program has eliminated the equivalent of 16,000 nuclear warheads by recycling 400 metric tons of weapons-grade uranium from Russia into low enriched uranium used as fuel in commercial nuclear power plants. The Megatons to Megawatts program is a unique, commercially financed government-industry partnership in which 500 metric tons of Russian weapons-grade uranium downblended to low enriched uranium is being supplied to USEC for delivery to USEC's customers as commercial reactor fuel.

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