Cutback in nuclear weapon plants; accident at Savannah River

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Department of Energy Sec James Watkins announced on Dec 16, 1991 the consolidation and closure of nuclear weapons production facilities as a result of the reduction in US nuclear weapons requirements. The Pinellas, Mound, Rocky Flats and the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory plants are slated for closure. Only the Nevada test site, Allied-Signal, Savannah River, Pantex and Y-12 plants will remain operational after 1996. About a week after Watkins' announcement, restart operations at Savannah River's mothballed K reactor resulted in tritium-contaminated water spilling into the river.

Management, Accidents, Buildings and facilities, United States. Department of Energy, Georgia, Radioactive pollution of water, Radioactive water pollution, Nuclear weapons plants, Savannah River Plant

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The nuclear-weapon states and Article VI of the NPT

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The five nuclear weapon states of United States, Russia, France, Britain and China have committed for continuing negotiations in good faith with all other parties according to Article VI of the nuclear non proliferation treaty. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union has meant a stoppage in the nuclear arms race which was so dominant in the past. The numbers of the US and the Russian arsenals have significantly gone down.

Treaties

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Ukrainian nuclear debate clouds prospects for START I ratification

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The Ukrainian Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma has proclaimed that Ukraine should become a temporary nucelar-weapon state at the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) debate. However President Leonid Kravchuk has said that his government continues to be committed to ratifying START I. There have been a number of disputes between Russian and Ukraine, such as nuclear forces in Ukraine.

Ukraine, Nuclear arms control

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