Plutonium and Security: The Military Aspects of the Plutonium Economy [Paperback]

The contributors to this text discuss the cases for and against the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel elements to remove the plutonium from them.The case against reprocessing, Paul Eavis; US policy for plutonium civilian use, non-proliferation and nuclear arms reduction, Warren H.Donnelly; civil plutonium in Europe and Japan in the 1990s, Frans Berkhout; plutonium recycling and the problem of nuclear proliferation, David Albright and Harold A.Feiveson; calculating the plutonium in spent fuel elements, Kate Barnham; current nuclear programmes in Third World countries, A.Gillespie; plutonium and latent nuclear proliferation, George Quester; the 1995 NPT extension conference - problems and prospects, David Fischer; reprocessing - the role of the international Atomic Energy Agency, Jarles E.Lovett; a world wide program for controlling fissile material, Gordon Thompson; a global strategy for nuclear arms control, Gordon Thompson; types of nuclear weapons, Frank Barnaby.