Mckirdy, Euan. “Japan Agrees to Hand over Nuclear Material to United States.” CNN. Cable News Network, 25 Mar. 2014. Web. 01 Mar. 2015. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/25/world/asia/us-japan-nuclear-fuel-deal/index.html>.

In this CNN article we see that the US and Japan were discussing a plan on how to transport japans nuclear waste form the Fast Critical Assembly(FCA) in Japan, to a secure facility here in the United States. The pledge that both the US and Japan signed was meant to show that these two nations were going to continue to promote improving nuclear safety and security around the world. The US started a program to prompt the disposal of HEU and Plutonium in order to keep it out of the hands of criminals and terrorists. The US has extend its support to other nations especially now that the US is in talks with the iranians about their nuclear program and the tension has risen on the korean peninsula. The US agreed on the delivery of 700 lbs. of weapons grade uranium to be transported to the US, so that it can be degraded and used in a safer way.

I feel that the US is doing a good thing in wanting for countries to dispose of their unused plutonium and maybe downgrading it, but I don’t agree with that nuclear waste being transported from other countries thousands of miles away to the US and maybe causing a huge disaster on route to these repository plants. I also don’t know where the US is going to put all of this radioactive material because it seems that the US hasn’t figured out what to do with its own nuclear waste much less with the waste of other world nations.