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- Title
The Legacy of Britain's Dirty Decades of Nuclear Reprocessing: 120 Tonnes of Plutonium.
- Authors
Brown, Paul
- Abstract
Like Britain, Japan has no obvious outlet for the plutonium it will produce, except nuclear weapons and fast breeder reactors, this last a technology Japan has already tried and has ended in failure. It also seems unnecessary because Japan already owns a plutonium stockpile of several tonnes from sending spent fuel to the UK to be reprocessed. Seventy years after the United Kingdom first began extracting plutonium from spent uranium fuel to make nuclear weapons, the industry is finally calling a halt to reprocessing, leaving the country with 120 tons of the metal, the biggest stockpile in the world.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; PLUTONIUM; LIQUID metal fast breeder reactors; RADIOACTIVE wastes; NUCLEAR energy
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2022, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article