U.S. Fissile Materials Disposition Efforts: 40th Annual Meeting Keynote Address

I am pleased to appear before you, representing the Department of Energy and, particularly, the Office of Fissile Materials Disposition. Undersecretary Moniz was supposed to speak to you today, but he sends his regrets. He was asked to join Secretary Richardson in meetings with Evgeny Adamov, the Russian minister of atomic energy, and other Russian government officials. Dr. Moniz asked me to represent him today because he believes the materials disposition program mirrors the crosscutting issues and interests of the nuclear materials management community. In looking at the attendance list, I'd surmise that many of you in the audience today are intimately aware of these disposition efforts.