1.   The Energy Department says design and conceptual work for the new pit manufacturing facility, which would reprocess plutonium from old pits, is getting under way.

2.   The most advanced program in the world to re-use nuclear waste, by reprocessing plutonium, was already in deep trouble.

3.   The plutonium agreement calls for building a new plant to reprocess plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons into fuel for civilian nuclear power plants.

4.   The second agreement would provide U.S. funding for a new plant to reprocess plutonium from Russian nuclear weapons into fuel for power plants.

5.   Under the plutonium agreement, a new plant will be built to reprocess plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons into fuel for civilian nuclear power plants.