From my email feeds: Sure wish I could have been at this one

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2. The number is clearly wrong. After Al Gore negotiated the megatons to megawatts... uni

...from 1993 to 2013 Russia exported 509 HEU but diluted it with 15000 tons of depleted uranium before sending it. This precluded US use in weapons.

The amounted to dismantling about 20,000 warheads.

Russia continued to supply enriched uranium to the US until very recently. Some of it came from enrichment plants, not bombs. It seems that it might have amounted to something like 50,000 tons since 1993, but the error might be in referring to it as "highly enriched" (weapons grade) uranium. It was more likely low .enriched.

It amounts to about 1500 reactor years of fuel, with 100 reactors roughly, about a 15 year supply.

The Russians sold this uranium for about one billion dollars, undercutting prices of almost every other supplier of virgin low enriched fuel.

My understanding is the Russian wanted to sell us plutonium but we declined it.