1. Britain's Policies on Fissile Materials: The Next Steps
... storage and disposition. This entails recognition that the great majority of plutonium held in Britain is now surplus to any conceivable civil or military requirement. It is a waste, and has to be dealt with as such. To become more active abroad, particularly in co-operation with ... seems the more likely approach. It is therefore possible that Chapelcross is currently being operated to produce tritium at rates well above the annual requirement. 2.4 Acquisition of HEU for civil purposes No detailed studies of Britain's production and usage of HEU for civil research purposes have been pu...
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