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Plutonium recycle: an unnecessary threat to international security (1986)

Author	D.Albright, H.Feiveson
Date	1986
Classification	6.01.2.55/15 (PLUTONIUM - GENERAL)
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David Albright and Harold Feiveson

Abstract
The separation of plutonium and its use in fresh fuel in commercial light water 
reactors, activities which have already begun in Europe and Japan will, if 
unchecked, by the end of the century, result in an annual flow in routine commerce 
of tens of thousands of kilograms of separated plutonium. This will require 
extraordinary security measures to protect the plutonium from theft and sabotage. 
Commerce in plutonium will eventually spread elsewhere, bringing a score of 
countries to the threshold of a nuclear weapons capability. The abandonment of 
the separation and recycle of plutonium giving rise to these risks would pose 
no economic cost.

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