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At an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz today announced the United States is embarking on an effort to dilute and dispose of six metric tons of excess plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and that the United States is prepared to work with the IAEA in 2017 to develop a monitoring and verification plan for the disposition process.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Calls for Increased Investment to Enhance U.S. Energy Emergency Response. DOE Announces $30 Million in Funding for Cybersecurity and Releases Summary of Cascadia Earthquake Response Exercise.

Well, thank you. 

I had planned to say how pleased I was to be back with the Western Governors’ Association.  (Laughter.)  But it really is good to be here.  And it’s good to have fun while we actually get some serious work done, and I appreciate that.  And thanks, of course, to our hosts here in Jackson Hole.

2016 Commencement Address to Boston College Graduates by Secretary Ernest Moniz

Keynote Address by Secretary Moniz at the Department of Energy Summit on Improving the Economics of America’s Nuclear Power Plants

Secretary Moniz Keynote Address at the National Coal Council 2016 Annual Spring Meeting

Deputy Secretary Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall's Remarks on the Enduring U.S.- ROK Nuclear Security Agenda at the American Center in Seoul, Korea as prepared for delivery on April 15, 2016.

Remarks by Secretary Moniz to the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Secretary Moniz's keynote address at the 2016 MIT Energy Conference

SECRETARY ERNEST MONIZ:  Today what we’re going to focus on is basically nuclear materials.  And I would just put that in the context that President Obama, in April of 2009 in the Prague agenda laid out a broad nuclear agenda, with a very, very strong focus on kind of reviving really our programs or actions in terms of controlling, eliminating whenever possible, nuclear materials of risk.  And I’m going to end up today by conjuring up the nuclear security summit that we have coming up at the end of next month, leading in turn, by the way, to the IAEA’s second triannual nuclear security min