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Politics : Clinton -- doomed & wagging, Japan collapses, Y2K bug, etc

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To: SOROS who wrote (442)	9/23/1998 9:16:00 AM
From: SOROS	of 1151

BBC - London - 09/23/98 The United States and Russia have agreed to set up a joint project aimed at transforming Russia's decaying nuclear weapons plants into thriving commercial enterprises. The aim of the Nuclear Cities Initiative is to create civilian jobs, some 50,000 in the next five years, particularly for Russian nuclear scientists, who might otherwise try to make a living by selling their knowledge on the black market. "I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to us all that economic hardship does not drive Russian nuclear weapons scientists into employment in places like Iran and North Korea," US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said. The deal was signed by Mr Richardson and Russia's Minister of Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov during the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) annual general conference in Vienna. The project will focus on the 10 most secret locations - known as closed cities - that form the core of the former Soviet nuclear weapons establishment. It is here that plutonium production, uranium enrichment, weapons design and assembly are all concentrated. More than a million people live in these cities whose future is increasingly uncertain. In the first year projects will be developed in three of the 10 cities. Funding will come from US Government agencies - $30m in this year - and, it is hoped, from the private sector. But the BBC's defence correspondent, Jonathan Marcus, says that so far the US administration has not won extra money from congress, and the Russian Government, given the economic chaos, is going to be hard put to find its share of the funding. The United States is already heavily involved in helping Russia to secure and store nuclear materials retrieved from its massive stock-pile of weapons. Mr Richardson said that the US and Russia had already identified 100 tonnes of plutonium and nearly 700 tonnes of highly-enriched uranium as surplus to defence needs, and that they had pledged never to return these materials to military use.

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