Plutonium and Security: The Military Aspects of the Plutonium Economy

by Dr. Frank Barnaby

Overview

The contributors to this text discuss the cases for and against the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel elements to remove the plutonium from them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349116959
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The case against reprocessing, Paul Eavis; US policy for plutonium civilian use, non-proliferation and nuclear arms reduction, Warren H.Donnelly; civil plutonium in Europe and Japan in the 1990s, Frans Berkhout; plutonium recycling and the problem of nuclear proliferation, David Albright and Harold A.Feiveson; calculating the plutonium in spent fuel elements, Kate Barnham; current nuclear programmes in Third World countries, A.Gillespie; plutonium and latent nuclear proliferation, George Quester; the 1995 NPT extension conference - problems and prospects, David Fischer; reprocessing - the role of the international Atomic Energy Agency, Jarles E.Lovett; a world wide program for controlling fissile material, Gordon Thompson; a global strategy for nuclear arms control, Gordon Thompson; types of nuclear weapons, Frank Barnaby.