1. Britain's Policies on Fissile Materials: The Next Steps
... (according to best estimates of the previous Government's plans), and assuming that each warhead contained 15-20 kg of HEU, this would require 3-6 tonnes of HEU. This would leave about 2-5 tonnes for future naval requirements. If, however, the Labour government honours its pre- ... research reactor fuel (domestic and foreign) through reprocessing at Dounreay, although it did not reveal the amount of 235U contained in the recovered material nor its fate. In the civil as in the military sector, it is therefore not easy to make sense of Britain's ... it is a fair assumption that no other co...
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