Examples of using Tons of highly enriched in English and their translations into Russian
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In 1994, 174 metric tons of highly enriched uranium was removed from the weapons programme.
On the date of the announcement of the outcome of the Review they comprised 7.6 tons of plutonium and 21.9 tons of highly enriched uranium.
In 1994, the United States removed 174 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from its weapons programme.
In 1994, 174 tons of highly enriched uranium were removed, of which 135 tons have been downblended.
Even more significantly, the United States has removed 374 metric tons of highly enriched uranium and 59 metric tons of plutonium from its defence stocks.
Five hundred tons of highly enriched uranium is equivalent to the material necessary for roughly 20,000 nuclear weapons.
This means that the halfway mark toward the final goal of the agreement, the elimination of 500 tons of highly enriched uranium by the year 2013, has now been reached.
By 2013, a total of 500 tons of highly enriched uranium will be eliminated in accordance with this agreement.
According to American experts, at present,at 400 objects in Russia, there are 75 tons of plutonium and 600 tons of highly enriched uranium, suitable for nuclear weapons production.
We have down-blended 58 metric tons of highly enriched uranium(HEU) from our defence stockpile into reactor fuel.
Sixth, huge quantities of weapons-grade plutonium will be removed from dismantled warheads as a result of the implementation of the START agreements, along with hundreds of tons of highly enriched uranium.
Tons of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium are available in stocks that could easily be turned into weapons.
It was implementing a programme, in cooperation with the United States, to reprocess 500 tons of highly enriched uranium from nuclear weapons into fuel for nuclear power plants.
Almost three tons of highly enriched uranium-- enough to produce more than 20 nuclear bombs-- are diluted and converted into low-enriched uranium to be used solely for peaceful purposes.
In 1994, the US andRussia signed a 20-year $12-billion contract covering the purchase of 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium(HEU) recovered from Russian nuclear weapons.
Jointly we have down-blended 322 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from Soviet-era dismantled nuclear weapons and 10 metric tons of Russian weapons-usable material.
Certainly there can be no doubt as to the relevance of the fact that as of the end of 1997 at least 250 tons of plutonium and 1,700 tons of highly enriched uranium(HEU) existed in fissile material stockpiles available for weapons purposes.
We have down-blended more than 89 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from our defence stockpile into low-enriched reactor fuel and delivered an additional 10.6 metric tons to commercial facilities for near-term down-blending.
Our contribution to the irreversibility of nuclear disarmament also includes the implementation of a Russian-United States programme to processfuel for electric power stations. Thus far, 500 tons of highly enriched uranium have been extracted from Russian nuclear weapons.
The decision gradually to remove up to 500 tons of highly enriched uranium and up to 50 tons of weapon-grade plutonium from nuclear military programmes was an effective practical contribution by Russia to making nuclear disarmament irreversible.
In September 2005, in accordance with an agreement concluded between the Governments of Russia and the United States of Americaon 18 February 1993, 250 tons of highly enriched uranium, which is roughly the equivalent of 10,000 nuclear warheads, were converted into low-enriched uranium.
The decision gradually to remove up to 500 tons of highly enriched uranium and up to 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium from nuclear military programmes is an effective contribution by Russia to ensuring that nuclear disarmament is irreversible.
In this regard, it was welcoming to see the United States andthe Russian Federation show their good faith by providing 17 metric tons of highly enriched uranium and 120 metric tons of low-enriched uranium, respectively, to bolster their own assurance mechanisms.
As of 31 December 2005, Agency safeguards were applied to 930 facilities, including inter alia 240 power reactor units, 158 research reactors and critical assemblies, 13 enrichment plants, 7 reprocessing plants, some 90 tons of unirradiated plutonium outside reactor cores, 845 tons of plutonium contained in irradiated fuel, andnearly 30 tons of highly enriched uranium.
To date, the United States has downblended a total of more than 140 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from these declarations, enough material for more than 5,500 nuclear weapons.
The United States has declared approximately 174 tons of highly enriched uranium and 52 tons of surplus plutonium excess to national security needs, and has placed some of this material under International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) safeguards.
Perhaps the most successful example of cooperation to reduce nuclear threats is the agreement between the United States andRussia to down-blend more than 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from Russia's dismantled nuclear weapons for use in United States nuclear power plants.
The fact that the world has a stockpile of thousands of tons of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, which are enough to produce more than 100,000 nuclear weapons, is a stark reminder that international peace and security is in a state of absolute crisis.
In September 2005, there was an important landmark in the implementation of the Highly Enriched Uranium Purchase Agreement, an 18 February 1993 agreement between the Governments of the Russian Federation and the United States of America on the use of highly enriched uranium extracted from nuclear weapons:250 tons of highly enriched uranium, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, were processed into low-enriched uranium.
Under a United States-Russia agreement to eliminate 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons, Russia has so far down-blended 306 metric tons from Russian weapons into reactor fuel.