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Plutonium End Game:

Managing Global Stocks of Separated Weapons-Usable Commercial and Surplus Nuclear Weapons Plutonium

By: Arjun Makhijani

January 2001


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Table of Contents:

Preface

Summary and Recommendations
A. Main Findings
B. Recommendations

Chapter 1: Nature of the problem of commercial plutonium

Chapter 2: A Brief History of Commercial Plutonium

Chapter 3: Assessment of the current situation
A. Japan
B. Britain
C. Germany
D. France

Chapter 4: Disposition of US-Russian Surplus Military Plutonium
A. Non-proliferation
B. Safety
C. Liability
D. Costs

Chapter 5: Alternative Disposition Options
A. Isotopic composition of plutonium
B. Spent fuel standard
C. Immobilization Matrix
D. US-Russian plutonium disposition options
E. Britain
F. France

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January 2001

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