1. Britain's Policies on Fissile Materials: The Next Steps
... that Trident carries no more warheads than Polaris', and if the total number of warheads on the Polaris/Chevaline force lay between 96 and 144, then the requirement for HEU would only be half as much (1.4 to 2.9 tonnes). 7 This would then leave over five tonnes for naval reactors. The number of nuclear submarines in the British fleet is being reduced and the efficiency of their reactor cores raised significantly with ... international safeguards on a voluntary basis. As a result, they and France concluded 'voluntary offer' agreements with the Agency in the second half of the 1970s. The ...
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