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Plutonium stockpiles: reorganize and recycle, or Anarchy in the UK?

Steve Aplin
February 13, 2011

Get ready for a righteous fight over plutonium in the UK. The World Nuclear News reports that the UK government is thinking seriously about recycling the country’s civilian plutonium for electric power generation. It has launched consultations on the question of whether to do that, or entrain the stuff permanently in glass logs and dispose of it, or just keep it in long term storage. The UK has been in …Read the rest of the article