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Plutonium programs in East Asia and Idaho will challenge the Biden administration via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/04/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Frank N. von Hippel Among the Biden administration’s nuclear challenges are ongoing civilian plutonium programs in China and Japan. Also, South Korea’s nuclear-energy research and development establishment has been asserting that it should have the same “right” to have a … Continue reading →

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Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare via Arms Control Association

Posted on 2020/10/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

November 2020 Nailing the Coffin of Civilian Plutonium Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a NightmareBy Frank von Hippel,Masafumi Takubo, andJungmin KangSpringer Press198pp. Reviewed by Thomas Countryman […] The earliest rationale for using plutonium as a nuclear fuel rested … Continue reading →

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