How to simplify the plutonium problem
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It is clear that current approaches to dealing with the world stockpile of separated plutonium represent a significant waste of time and resources. It is therefore time to consider new approaches. The UK could reduce its plutonium stockpile problem by more than half by 2010 if it were to exchange its separated civilian plutonium and related radioactive waste for unreprocessed foreign spent fuel and if it were to suspend the reprocessing of the fuel from its own advanced gas-cooled reactors. France could offer interim storage of foreign spent fuel as an alternative to reprocessing services.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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The politics of plutonium disposal
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One way of disposing plutonium is by mixing it with other highly radioactive waste and storing them is a glass or ceramic for eventual burying. Another is by processing the element into mixed oxide fuel which can be used for burning in civilian nuclear power plant with subsequent disposal, together with the other spent nuclear fuel. US and the Russian government have agreed to implement the latter, a decision which dissatisfied environmentalists and critics of plutonium economic, labeling the act as an 'endorsement of plutonium.'
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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Migration of plutonium in ground water at the Nevada Test Site
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The Nevada Test Site (NTS) undertook nuclear tests between 1956 and 1992, and it contains a large amount of radioactive material, making it suitable to study the transport f radionuclide contaminants. Radionuclides observed in groundwater samples from aquifers at the site, were found to be linked with the colloidal fraction of the ground water. It is argued that colloidal groundwater migration played an important part in the transportation of plutonium.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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