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U.S.-Russia I: Abraham Selects Members of Joint Working Groups U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham yesterday announced the U.S. members of two U.S.-Russian joint working groups on nuclear nonproliferation efforts (see GSN, May 28). John Gordon, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, will lead the U.S. delegation to the working group that will focus on ways to reduce excess plutonium and weapon-grade uranium. Ambassador Linton Brooks, head of the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Office, will assist Gordon in the group, which will have six months to present findings. Energy Undersecretary Robert Card will head the U.S. delegation to a second working group of technical experts who will examine new areas of research on nuclear reactor designs and fuel cycle technologies to reduce stockpiles of fissile materials (see GSN, April 16). The group will have 60 days to present its recommendations. William Magwood, Energy’s director of nuclear energy, has been named to assist Card. “We look forward to working with our Russian partners to eliminate excess weapons material and safeguard against nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism,” Abraham said in a press release. “There is no higher priority in my department than the success of the nuclear nonproliferation programs” (U.S. Energy Department release, May 30).
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