Plutonium plant reportedly closed
Russia closed down a plutonium producing reactor, a Russian news agency reported, marking a milestone in U.S. nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
Itar-Tass cited a Siberian Chemicals Plant official, Alleges Suglobov, announcing the closure of the plant in the Siberian town of Seversk. Plant and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency officials could not be reached for comment.
A second reactor, also in Seversk, is expected to be shut down in June, and a third, in the central Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, is expected to be shuttered at the end of 2009.
An agreement was reached in March 2003 in which Washington committed $926 million to help build two new fossil fuel plants, one of which is almost completed.
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