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Updated: Aug 20, 2008

Funding Commitments Chart


Country General Funding Commitments Global Partnership Project Areas Comments
Australia AD$10 million ($7.4 million)
  • Submarine dismantlement
 Funds expended through the Japanese submarine dismantlement program.
Belgium €6.8 million
(~$8.7 million)		  
Canada CD$1 billion
 ($900 million)
  • Construction of railway at Shchuchye chemical weapons destruction facility (CWDF)
  • Infrastructure projects at Shchuchye CWDF
  • Funding Green Cross International's Izhevsk Public Information and Outreach Office
  • Zheleznogorsk plutonium reactor shut-down; design work on fossil fuel plant
  • ISTC
  • Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership
  • Dismantlement of 12 nuclear-powered submarines
  • Plutonium disposition program
  • Development of a Master Plan for Radioisotope Thermal Generators (RTGs)
  • Biological Nonproliferation projects (in addition to ISTC)
 Canada funds GP projects in the following areas:  chemical weapons destruction, nuclear submarine dismantlement, nuclear and radiological security, redirection of former weapons scientists and most recently added biosecurity and biosafety. 
Czech Republic 6 million Czech Koruna
(~ $247,000)		 The Czech Republic has provided 2 million Czech Koruna each year since 2003 to fund a UK Defense Ministry-led project to construct an electricity substation at the Shchuchye CWDF.  
Denmark €17.2 million
($20.8 million)		  
European Union €1 billion
($1.3 billion)
  • TACIS contribution to ISTC/STCU
  • Nuclear Safety
  • Submarine Dismantlement
  • Fissile Material Safeguards
  • Plutonium Disposition
  • Border Security and Export Control Assistance
  • CW Destruction
  
Finland €15 million
(~ $19.23 million)
  • Nuclear Material Safeguards
  • Nuclear Waste Management
  • Technical Safety Improvements at Kola NPP
  • Safety Improvements at Leningrad NPP
  • Emergency Preparedness in Northwest Russia, radiation monitoring and alarm testing
  • Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership
  • Regulatory cooperation to strengthen  nuclear and radiation safety  authorities in Russia and Ukraine
  • Chemical Weapons Destruction, Detection Network installed at destruction facility in Gornyy
  • Green Cross Chemical Weapons Public Outreach Program
 Finland joined the Global Partnership in June 2003.
 
France €750 million
($962 million)

 

 
  • Rehabilitation of the Gremikha naval base
  • Submarine dismantlement and management of SNF at Gremikha
  • Refitting nuclear waste incinerator at Zvezdochka Shipyard
  • Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership
  • Removal of RTGs
  • Plutonium Disposition
  • CW Destruction at Shchuchye
  • ISTC, biosecurity and biosafety programs in Russia
  
Germany $1.5 billion
  • Construction of long-term interim reactor storage facility at Sayda Bay, as well as radioactive waste handling and environmental remediation
  • Physical protection of radioactive material and spent fuel
  • Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership
  • Construction of CW destruction facilities at Kambarka and Gornyy
  
Italy €1 billion
($1.2 billion)
  • Nuclear submarine dismantlement and spent fuel management
  • CWDF at Shchuchye and Pochep
 Italy has dedicated €360 million to submarine dismantlement and €360 million to chemical weapons destruction. €280 million has yet to be designated to any specific projects.
Italy's contribution in the nuclear field is managed by the SOGIN (Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari) company.
Japan $200 million
  • Dismantlement of nuclear submarines at Zvezda Shipyard in the Russian Far East
  • Plutonium disposition
  • Weapons scientist redirection through ISTC
  
Netherlands €24.1 million
($30.9 million)		  
New Zealand 4 million NZ$
($2.4 million) 		All funds are being expended through the United Kingdom's CWD and plutonium production shutdown programs. 
Norway €100 million  ($128.2 million)
  • Dismantlement of two Victor II and one Victor III class submarines between 2004 and 2005.  An additional Victor I currently under dismantlement 
  • RTG removal
  • Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation (AMEC): Norway now has observer status
  • Nuclear Security/Safety and Physical Protection
  • Andreyeva Bay Infrastructure and Physical Security
  • Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership
  • CW destruction at Shchuchye, funded through the UK program
  • ISTC
  • Norway joined the Global Partnership in April 2003
  • Norway is facilitating South Korea's contribution, by funneling Seoul's funding for submarine dismantlement through the Norwegian program.
    • Poland $100,000
    • An agreement has been reached between the governments of Poland and the Russian Federation to cooperate in the sphere of CW destruction.  This agreement was signed on December 17, 2002.
    • An executive arrangement to the Agreement was signed on December 19, 2003 in Moscow.  The first project is on development of the technology and the construction of an experimental installation for the processing of the reaction masses obtained during the lewisite destruction at the Gornyy CWDF.
    • Polish-Russian Technological Park at Tarnow, Poland:  Poland has already contributed $100,000. 
    		 
    Republic of Korea $2.79 million  
    Russia $2 billion
    • Total funds committed:  $2,015,000,000
    • Funds committed for CW destruction (June 2002-June 2006):  $1,316,200,00
    • Funds committed for nuclear submarine dismantlement:  $699,000,000
    		  
    Sweden ~ €34.1 million
    ($43.6 million)    		 Sweden entered the Global Partnership in June 2003.
    Switzerland € 22.7 million
    ($29.1 million)
    • Environmental and health monitoring system at Shchuchye
    • Green Cross Chemical Weapons Public Outreach Program and annual National Forum in Moscow
    • CW destruction: electrical substation projects in Kambarka, Maradykova, Leonidovka and Pochep.
    		 Switzerland joined the Global Partnership on May 28, 2003.

    Switzerland also finances OPCW inspections of Albania's chemical weapons, up to: CHF 75,000 ($58,890).  Switzerland also led a chemical analysis of the stockpile, which enabled the United States to finalize the plans for a CWDF in Albania. 

    United Kingdom $750 million
    • Spent nuclear fuel storage at Andreyeva Bay
    • Nuclear-powered submarine dismantlement
    • Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation (AMEC) participant
    • Spent nuclear fuel storage at Mayak
    • Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership
    • Nuclear Security and Physical Protection
    • Nuclear Safety Program
    • Redirection of weapons scientists through the ISTC and STCU
    • Supports the U.S.-lead Elimination of Weapons Grade Plutonium Production program in Zheleznogorsk
    • Decommissioning the fast breeder reactor at Aktau
    • Infrastructure improvement and equipment procurement for CWDF at Shchuchye
    • Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership
    		 The UK primarily works in the following areas:  MPC&A upgrades, Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership, nuclear submarine dismantlement, spent nuclear fuel management, chemical weapons destruction.
    United States $10 billion Department of Energy Department of Defense Department of State
    TOTAL  $17.8 billion (this amount includes Russia's contribution of $2 billion; Moscow and Washington do not count the Russian contribution towards the $20 billion Global Partnership commitment made at Kananaskis)
    *Table compiled from the G8 Global Partnership Working Group 2006 Annual Report, Consolidated Report Data, Annex A.
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