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U.S.-Russia: Officials Sign Agreement to Close Plutonium Plants Washington and Moscow have signed an agreement to close the three remaining Russian plutonium plants over the next eight years, according to U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham (see GSN, March 6). “This will bring us to the end of production of weapons-grade plutonium in Russia,” he said. Abraham signed the agreement with Russian Atomic Energy Minister Alexander Rumyantsev. The United States, which halted its own plutonium production in 1990, agreed to put $400 million toward building fossil fuel plants that will replace the plutonium plants’ energy output (AFX News, March 12). The agreement was signed in Vienna during the International Conference on Security of Radioactive Sources (see GSN, March 11; Pravda, March 11).
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