美拟就核安全有关计划停止与俄更新合作

 　　MOSCOW, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia and the United States had halted a bilateral¹ nuclear safety project, which Washington had been financing for decades, local media reported Tuesday.

　　All joint² works in the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, also known as the updated Nunn-Lugar program, had been suspended, Moscow's Kommersant newspaper quoted U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) representative Anne Harrington as saying.

　　She said the United States made that decision, without further elaboration, while the newspaper attributed the move to discord³ between Moscow and Washington over the ongoing⁴ Ukrainian crisis.

　　Harrington added that 40 to 70 percent of the safety equipment had already been installed at Russia's nuclear facilities.

　　The program's overall budget amounted to 8.79 billion dollars. The funds already allocated⁵ for the project had been redirected from the 2015 budget of the U.S. Energy Department.

　　These funds were originally allocated for transportation of highly-enriched nuclear fuel to a single storage and for installation of security hardware at Russia's nuclear sites of Ozyorsk in the southern Urals and Arzamas-16 in Central Russia.

　　Since 1993, U.S. Defense⁶ Department and Energy Department had allocated 1.6 billion U.S. dollars for installation of safety devices at 50 Russian navy facilities, 11 strategic force sites and 175 civilian⁷ objects, the newspaper said.

　　The areas of cooperation that remained at the time included tracking, control and physical protection of nuclear materials; customs control; identification, recovery, storage, security and disposal of hazardous⁸ radioactive sources; processing of excess highly enriched uranium into low-enriched uranium; and dismantling⁹, transportation, recovery of fuel and secure storage of nuclear submarines.

　　In June 2013, the two countries replaced the project with a revised, smaller-scale version of the Nunn-Lugar program.

　　The Nunn-Lugar program was adopted after the collapse¹⁰ of the Soviet¹¹ Union to secure the destruction of weapons of mass destruction and related infrastructure¹² in the former Soviet republics.

1 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

3 discord   

n.不和，意见不合，争论，（音乐）不和谐

参考例句：

• These two answers are in discord.这两个答案不一样。
• The discord of his music was hard on the ear.他演奏的不和谐音很刺耳。

4 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

5 allocated   

adj. 分配的 动词allocate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The Ford Foundation allocated millions of dollars for cancer research. 福特基金会拨款数百万美元用于癌症研究。
• More funds will now be allocated to charitable organizations. 现在会拨更多的资金给慈善组织。

6 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

7 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

8 hazardous   

adj.(有)危险的，冒险的；碰运气的

参考例句：

• These conditions are very hazardous for shipping.这些情况对航海非常不利。
• Everybody said that it was a hazardous investment.大家都说那是一次危险的投资。

9 dismantling   

（枪支）分解

参考例句：

• The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。
• The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。

10 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

11 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

12 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。