Scope of Committment

• $2 billion budget (FY08 appropriation more than doubles 2001 appropriation).
• Engaging over 100 countries and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), through 19 programmatic activities.
• $49 million in international contributions and pledges from 7 countries.
• 3 Service to America Award winners.
  

Securing Civilian Nuclear and Radiological Materials Worldwide

• Converted 52 reactors in 31 countries from high-enriched uranium (HEU) to low-enriched uranium (LEU) (an additional 4 shut down).
• Returned over 600kg of Russian origin HEU; over 1,145kg of U.S. HEU; and over 140kg of other HEU material.
• Secured over 635 vulnerable radiological sites overseas (over 9 million curies worth); recovered over 17,525 radiological sources domestically (over 175,000 curies).

Securing Russian Nuclear Weapons Material

• Secured 85% of Russian nuclear weapons sites of concern; Bratislava Agreement work to be completed in 2008.
• A new U.S.-Russian plan identifies the requirements for Rosatom to sustain security upgrades installed over the past 14 years.
  

Detecting and Deterring Illicit International Nuclear Transfers

• In 2006, U.S. and Russia agreed to equip all of Russia’s border crossings with radiation detection devices by 2011 (6 years ahead of schedule), building on the 117 crossings already equipped.  An additional 43 sites outside of Russia have also been equipped.
• Megaports radiation detection equipment is operational in 12 countries with work underway in 19 other locations.
• Reviewed over 7,000 export licenses/requests for proliferation risk last year, recommending denial of 227.

Strengthening and Expanding International Nonproliferation Efforts

• Launched new initiative to strengthen nuclear safeguards applied by the IAEA; strengthened the Nuclear Suppliers Group export control guidelines and control lists.
• Overseeing disablement of North Korean facilities and working to verify denuclearization; worked to dismantle Libya’s WMD program.
• Engaged thousands of former weapons scientists and engineers in the former Soviet Union, Libya and Iraq, helping redirect their talents to civilian pursuits while preventing the flow of WMD expertise to countries of proliferation concern and terrorist groups.
• Trained 5,900 domestic export enforcement officials in WMD awareness and over 8,000 international export control officials on WMD identification and strategic trade controls since 9/11; in FY08, on track to train 1,000 U.S. officials in WMD export controls.
• Trained over 300 foreign officials annually on physical protect nuclear materials and facilities and trained over 1,000 foreign facility operators on nuclear material control and accounting procedures.

Eliminating Weapons-Usable Material

• Monitored the downblending of over 327 MT of former Soviet weapons-origin HEU for use in U.S. nuclear power plants, providing 10% of U.S. electricity.
• Downblended over 94 MT (approximately 3,700 nuclear weapons) of surplus U.S. HEU into LEU for use as nuclear reactor fuel, with an additional 14 MT packaged and shipped for downblending (total of nearly 108 MT); converted over 10 MT of Russian non-weapons excess HEU into LEU.
• Initiated downblending of an additional 17.4 MT of HEU for the Reliable Fuel Supply initiative.
• Working to dispose of at least 68 MT of U.S. and Russian weapons-grade plutonium; technically and financially credible plan agreed with Russia for disposal.
• Began construction of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility, which will fabricate 34 MT of surplus U.S. weapon-grade plutonium into MOX fuel for commercial reactors; an additional 9 MT of recently declared surplus U.S. plutonium is available for fabrication into MOX fuel.
• Ended 43 years of  weapons-grade plutonium production in Seversk by shutting down two weapons-grade plutonium production reactors; actively pursuing the closure of the Zheleznogorsk reactor ahead of the projected 2010 schedule, thereby eliminating weapons-grade plutonium production in Russia.
• Monitoring the safe storage of over 9 MT of Russian weapons-grade plutonium (nearly 1,125 warheads) to ensure that it is not used in the Russian nuclear weapons program.

Research and Development

• Developed the first-ever detection technique to measure uranium-235, using a novel, tunable X-ray beam--thus helping determine the weapons-suitability of nuclear material.
• Demonstrated state-of-the-art nuclear safeguard technology to determine remotely plutonium growth in a nuclear reactor.
• Delivered new ground and space based systems to better detect underground and atmospheric nuclear detonations.
• Transferred 40 advanced safeguards technologies to foreign partners to strengthen IAEA safeguards; initiated 85 ongoing collaborative nuclear safeguards research and development projects in 15 countries.