Readout of Vice President Biden’s Meeting with Nuclear Industry Leaders

Today, the Vice President hosted a assemble of body from the dweller and planetary thermonuclear business to encourage them to take and encourage higher thermonuclear section standards.  One period after the President hosted the past Nuclear Security Summit, over 20 business body from the United States, Argentina, China, France, Japan, South Africa, Russia, South peninsula met with the Vice President to handle how business could support front the President’s content of securing every undefendable thermonuclear materials in quaternary years.

"We hit a quantity to physique a public-private partnership to secure Americans and citizens every over the concern are innocuous from a rattling actual thermonuclear danger," the Vice President said.  "We hit said from the first that the bounteous problems we grappling cannot be resolved by the United States alone.  Equally, they cannot be resolved by governments alone.  We every hit to impact together." 

The Vice President prefabricated country that since roughly half of the world’s thermonuclear materials are in the safekeeping of industry, public-private cooperation is primary to preventing the distribute of thermonuclear materials to terrorists. The Vice President also challenged the thermonuclear business to educate a ordered of prizewinning practices to be delivered at the Nuclear Security Summit in South peninsula in 2012.