1. Britain's Policies on Fissile Materials: The Next Steps
... from pre-1971 civil reactor discharges, and 1.3 tonnes from Chapelcross and Calder Hall which may have been transferred in the 1980s. Most of the material has been used in US research facilities, notably the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) at Hanford and the Zero Power Physics Reactor at Argonne National Laboratory. However, the US Department of Energy blended some or all of the material from Chapelcross and Calder Hall with supergrade plutonium to increase ... the US stock of weapon-grade material. 11 This occurred in the early- to mid-1980s ... ...
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