Plutonium Disposal, the Third Way
By Allison Macfarlane, Frank von Hippel, Jungmin Kang, Robert Nelson | May 1, 2001
If all the “excess” plutonium from dismantled weapons were measured in units of 8 kilograms—the amount the International Atomic Energy Agency considers sufficient to make a Nagasaki-type bomb—then there is enough excess weapons plutonium to build about 9,000 bombs, and enough plutonium separated from spent reactor fuel to build another 25,000.
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 57 Issue 3
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Allison Macfarlane
Allison M. Macfarlane is professor and director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. She... Read More
Frank von Hippel
Frank N. von Hippel is a professor of Public and International Affairs emeritus, Princeton University, a co-founder of the Program on Science and... Read More
Jungmin Kang
Jungmin Kang is a part-time visiting researcher at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia. Kang is also South... Read More
Robert Nelson
Allison Macfarlane is a senior research associate in the Security Studies Program at MIT. Frank von Hippel is a professor of Public and International... Read More
