1. Britain's Policies on Fissile Materials: The Next Steps
... Low-Enriched Uranium, never HEU. When Mrs Thatcher became Prime Minister, she successfully persuaded President Reagan to restore the exchange agreement. Thereafter, the Capenhurst plant sent intermediate-level (usually 4.5%) enriched uranium to the US for re-enrichment to the levels required for defence purposes. 3 The plant ceased producing enriched uranium under contract to the Ministry ... of supply) 0.5 Sub-total 7.3 Inventory for weapons and submarines 7.8 ± 25% Source: David Albright, Frans Berkhout and William Walker, SIPRI, Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996 (Oxford Univ...
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