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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Dietrich Schwarz, Greg Pause
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 537-541
Overview/Energy Policy | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946896
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Nuclear energy is well suited for baseload electricity generation as well as a broad range of cogeneration and process heat applications that serve to stretch our oil reserves. This paper presents a summary of non-electric applications that range from methanol production to space heating and distinguishes the High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor as uniquely suited for the high temperature applications.
