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Urgent: what to do with 100 tonnes of plutonium

The government’s recent green light for the building of new nuclear power stations re-emphasises the urgent need for a long-term strategy to deal with the UK’s stockpile of separated plutonium.

We have the unenviable distinction of having the world’s largest stockpile of separated plutonium of over 100 tonnes. This has almost doubled over the last ten years. The separation of plutonium from the spent fuel from nuclear reactors began in the 1960s with the intention of …

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