2016 Nuclear Security Summit
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2016 Nuclear Security Summit | |
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Host country | United States |
Date | March 31 – April 1, 2016 |
Venue(s) | Walter E. Washington Convention Center |
Cities | Washington, D.C. |
Participants | 58 representatives |
Follows | 2014 Nuclear Security Summit |
Website | www |
The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held in Washington, D.C., United States on March 31 and April 1, 2016. It was the fourth edition of the conference, succeeding the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit.
Background
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The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit[1] was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. in the United States of America.[2] It was organised by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).[3]
Participants
Notably absent from the summit were leaders or representatives of Russia, North Korea, Iran and Belarus.[4] However, a significant contingent of Asian leaders especially from South Asia such as India and Singapore attending the summit was a probable sign of continental concern over terrorist threats alongside vulnerable nuclear facilities.[5]
Announcements
Various countries, including Kazakhstan and Poland, undertook to reduce their highly-enriched uranium stockpiles. Japan agreed to ship additional separated plutonium to the U.S.[11] Canada pledged $42 million to bolster nuclear security.[12] The U.S. disclosed its own inventory of highly enriched uranium has dropped from 741 metric tons in the 1990s to 586 metric tons as of 2013. A strengthened nuclear security agreement, which had languished since 2005, was finally approved, extending safeguards for nuclear materials and requiring criminal penalties for nuclear smuggling.[13] According to the U.S., since the last summit in 2014, ten nations have removed or disposed of about 450 kilograms of highly enriched uranium; Argentina, Switzerland and Uzbekistan are now free of highly enriched uranium, as is all of Latin America and the Caribbean.[14]
The summit participants stated that the 2016 summit would be "the last of this kind".[13]
See also
References
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