assisted Pakistan in construction of an unsafeguarded plutonium production reactor at Khushab,42 and possibly a reprocessing plant.43 In 1986, China sold Pakistan tritium, an element used in the trigger

and if stolen, weapons-grade plutonium could be separated from this MOX by straightforward chemical means. EDF, the French nuclear utility, does not permit fresh MOX fuel to be stored at its reactor sites

far-reaching implication in Europe for the massive plutonium stockpiles which continue to build up-- contrary to the Clinton Administration’s 1993 non-proliferation policy--at French and British reprocessing

taken the spent fuel from its 29 civilian reactors and reprocessed it, producing about a ton of reactor-grade plutonium a year. Although the plutonium is not suitable for use in Russian nuclear weapons,

But a worldwide plutonium industry, spawned by the reprocessing of U.S.-supplied nuclear fuel, nonetheless developed because of the exploitation of waivers and exceptions in this law to provisions that

and cancellation of fuel reprocessing contracts with BNFL by Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. It has also led to a dispute between Japan and the United Kingdom over the fate of eight BNFL MOX fuel assemblies

making it inaccessible for weapons use unless the plutonium is chemically separated in an expensive, complex facility known as a reprocessing plant. In this way, these approaches meet the "spent fuel

If all of the world's spent fuel were "reprocessed" to extract plutonium, there would be commerce in thousands of tons of a material of which less than 15 pounds is needed to make a Nagasaki-type bomb.

sense to continue to develop the experiential base for plutonium immobilization at SRS, provided that this activity can be done safely and, if it utilizes F-Area facilities in the near-term, does not

reprocessing plant at Sellafield, Energy Secretary John Battle responded that plutonium so recovered has been fabricated into MOX fuel. He then described the following arrangement for transport of the