A weapons-grade ring of electrorefined plutonium
"Disposition of Excess Plutonium"
Book Chapter, Global Fissile Materials Report 2007, pages 33-42
October 2007
Authors: Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project, Anatoli Diakov
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Managing the Atom; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
This chapter describes disposition options and assesses the Russian and U.S. programs. The discussion is also relevant to the problem of disposing of the world's growing stocks of separated civil plutonium — especially in the United Kingdom, which currently has no disposition plan.
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