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• Achieved over 4 million safe work hours for the MFFF. Completed facility structural foundation for
the WSB, and initiated Balance-of-Plant (BOP) construction activities for the WSB.
• Completed conceptual design of the PDC project in support of Critical Decision 1 (CD-1).
• Executed an Interagency Agreement with the TVA to evaluate the irradiation of MOX Fuel in up to
5 TVA reactors.
• Certified Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as supplier of plutonium oxide to MOX
Services, and began production of certified oxide at LANL as early feedstock for MOX.
• Signed a Protocol to amend the 2000 PMDA to reflect a revised Russian plutonium disposition
program.
• Reached agreement with Russia on the key elements of a PMDA monitoring and inspection regime
and began discussions with the International Atomic Energy Agency on its potential participation in
such a regime.
Major Out Year Priorities and Assumptions
The outyear requirements for FMD total $4,140,165,000 (FY 2013– FY 2016). The funding trend for
the four-year period for FMD addresses the start of operations for MOX and the WSB, and beginning
construction of the PDC project. Funding for the U.S. Uranium Disposition program is declining in the
outyears because the future supply of HEU for disposition from weapons dismantlement and Naval
Reactors rejects will be at a lower rate. The HEU disposition program funding depends on the
continuing ability to use barter arrangements to pay for commercial down-blending services by
transferring title to a portion of the resulting low-enriched uranium to the contractors.
The revised PMDA calls for the U.S. to make available up to $400,000,000 to support plutonium
disposition in Russia including the Russian monitoring and inspection regime, subject to future
appropriations. The balance of the more than approximately $2,000,000,000 remaining cost of Russia's
plutonium disposition would be borne by Russia and, if available, non-U.S. government contributions.
Additional funds separate from the $400,000,000 will be required to continue U.S. cost sharing of
GT-MHR research and development in Russia, U.S. management and oversight of the overall Russian
plutonium disposition program and the U.S. monitoring and inspection regime.
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation/
Fissile Materials Disposition Page 379
FY 2012 Congressional Budget