NRC: U.S. Purchase of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium Recovered From Nuclear Weapons (1993)

Why this matters

Nuclear Regulatory Commission material from 1993 on the U.S.–Russia agreement to buy uranium from dismantled Soviet warheads and blend it into reactor fuel. That deal, 'Megatons to Megawatts', went on to fuel a large share of U.S. nuclear electricity for two decades. The regulatory side of one of history's largest disarmament programs.

Tags

• HEU
• Megatons to Megawatts
• disarmament
• nuclear fuel

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The Nuclear Paper Trail

Swords into ploughshares: Soviet warheads as American reactor fuel.

Cite

Nuclear Regulatory Commission. "NRC: U.S. Purchase of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium Recovered From Nuclear Weapons (1993)." 1993. Released 2 February 2026. https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NRCuspHEUrfnw1993.pdf (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0125).