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vital to GTRI’s mission because it upgrades security until a permanent threat reduction solution can be
implemented. This subprogram includes:
Liquid-Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (BN-350) nuclear material protection. This activity provides
safe and secure long-term storage of approximately 3,000 kilograms of weapon-grade plutonium and
10,000 kilograms of HEU in spent fuel from the shutdown BN-350 fast breeder reactor in
Kazakhstan.
International material protection. This activity works in cooperation with foreign counterparts and
international agencies to install security upgrades at buildings containing high-priority, vulnerable
nuclear and radiological materials located at civilian sites outside the United States.
Domestic material protection. This activity works in cooperation with Federal, State, and local
agencies, and private industry to install security upgrades at buildings containing high-priority
nuclear and radiological materials located at civilian sites in the United States.
Annual Performance Results and Targets
The Department is in the process of updating its strategic plan, and has been actively engaging
stakeholders including Congress. The draft strategic plan is being released for public comment
concurrent with this budget submission, with the expectation of official publication this spring. The
draft plan and FY 2012 budget are consistent and aligned. Updated measures will be released at a later
date and available at the following link http://www.mbe.doe.gov/budget/12budget/index.htm.
FY 2010 Accomplishments
Through September 2010, GTRI has accelerated threat reduction efforts by: 1) converting or verifying
the shutdown of a cumulative 72 research reactors from use of HEU fuel to LEU fuel; 2) removing a
cumulative 2,852 kilograms of HEU and plutonium, enough material to make more than 110 nuclear
bombs; 3) removing a cumulative 26,172 excess and unwanted radiological sources in the United States,
containing more than 780,000 curies; and 4) protecting a cumulative 971 nuclear and radiological
buildings worldwide with vulnerable high-priority nuclear and radiological materials.
Major Outyear Priorities and Assumptions
The outyear projections for the GTRI program total $2,535,278,000 (FY 2013 – FY 2016). GTRI plays
a key role in support of the international effort the President announced in Prague on April 5, 2009 to
secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years, which was further
strengthened in the July 2009 Joint Statement resulting from the Moscow Summit, the September 2009
UNSC Resolution 1887 and the April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit. GTRI has worked in
118 countries around the world to implement nuclear and radiological threat reduction in line with this
goal. By the end of 2016, GTRI will have converted 129 (65 percent) of the 200 HEU reactors, removed
4,801 kilograms vulnerable weapons-useable (100 percent) of the approximately 4,801 kilograms of
nuclear material at civilian sites, and protected 2,607 (31 percent) of the estimated 8,500 buildings with
high-priority nuclear and radiological materials.
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation/
Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) Page 424
FY 2012 Congressional Budget