1. Britain's Policies on Fissile Materials: The Next Steps
... 3.1 Reprocessing of domestic spent fuels Between 1961 and 1993, just over 62 tonnes of plutonium were discharged in spent fuels from Britain's civil power reactors, making it the fifth largest producer behind the US (236 tonnes), France (111 tonnes), Japan (80 tonnes) and Canada (67 tonnes). However, among these countries Britain has separated a disproportionately large quantity of ... considerably larger if materials were separated from foreign fuels and were not repatriated. Britain's civil inventory of separated plutonium therefore dwarfs its military inventory (the obverse of the si...
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