The UK has committed up to $750 million over 10 years through its Global Threat Reduction Programme for projects which:

• improves the security of fissile materials, dangerous biological agents and chemical weapon stocks;
• reduces the number of sites containing radioactive material;
• works towards closure of reactors still producing plutonium;
• improves nuclear safety, to reduce the risk of further Chernobyl-type incidents;
• constructs facilities for destroying chemical weapons stocks; and
• provides sustainable employment for former weapon scientists whose expertise could be misused.

The UK currently supports projects to:

• dismantle nuclear submarines in Northwest Russia and make safe their spent nuclear fuel;
• dispose of 34 tonnes of plutonium in Russia;
• destroy Russia's stocks of chemical weapons (a total of 40,000 tonnes); and
• create sustainable employment for former Soviet weapons scientists.

Read more about projects funded in the work of the Global Partnership Fourth Annual Report (PDF)