1. Britain's Policies on Fissile Materials: The Next Steps
... 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 University Press: Oxford, 1997), Table 4.9. 2.2 Plutonium acquisition for weapons Unlike HEU, all plutonium used in Britain's nuclear weapons has been produced in the UK. Some of Britain's plutonium output has however ... Subtotal, fuel- and reactor-grade TOTAL, all grades 8.7 11.8 ±15% Source: David Albright, Frans Berkhout and William Walker, SIPRI, Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996 (O...
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