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Plutonium and Security

The Military Aspects of the Plutonium Economy

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Frank Barnaby

    1. Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, UK
      University College London, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Frank Barnaby
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Case for Reprocessing

    • Arthur Denny
    Pages 10-16

  4. The Case Against Reprocessing

    • Paul Eavis
    Pages 17-28

  5. US Policy for Plutonium: Civilian Use, Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Arms Reduction

    • Warren H. Donnelly
    Pages 29-60

  6. Civil Plutonium in Europe and Japan in the 1990s

    • Frans Berkhout
    Pages 61-76

  7. Plutonium Recycling and the Problem of Nuclear Proliferation

    • David Albright, Harold A. Feiveson
    Pages 77-109

  8. Calculating the Plutonium in Spent Fuel Elements

    • Keith Barnham
    Pages 110-132

  9. Current Nuclear Programmes in Third World Countries

    • Anna Gillespie
    Pages 133-153

  10. Plutonium and Latent Nuclear Proliferation

    • George H. Quester
    Pages 154-167

  11. The 1995 NPT Extension Conference: Problems and Prospects

    • David Fischer
    Pages 168-179

  12. Reprocessing: The Role of the IAEA

    • James E. Lovett
    Pages 180-201

  13. A Worldwide Programme for Controlling Fissile Material

    • Gordon Thompson
    Pages 202-238

  14. A Global Strategy for Nuclear Arms Control

    • Gordon Thompson
    Pages 239-263

  15. Types of Nuclear Weapon

    • Frank Barnaby
    Pages 264-279

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 281-296
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The contributors to this text discuss the cases for and against the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel elements to remove the plutonium from them.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, UK

    Frank Barnaby

  • University College London, UK

    Frank Barnaby

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