The United States and Ukraine signed a deal Monday to take away the former Soviet country's stockpile of weapons-grade uranium by early next year.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko represent their nations in signing the agreement to remove the stockpile, which could offer enough material to build several nuclear weapons.
The deal was announce last year at an international nuclear security conference hosted by President Barack Obama but was not dignified until Monday Clinton and Gryshchenko had hoped to sign the deal in July, but it was belated amid Ukrainian reservations, according to U.S. officials among other reasons, Ukraine wanted assurance that the United States would complete a $25 million nuclear research ability called for under the deal.
The research facility will be able to produce 50 different types of medical isotopes, using only low-enriched uranium and Clinton said the U.S. was fully dedicated to meeting the timelines for construct the facility so it would be up and running by 2014.
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