Controlling the Flow of Weapon Usable Fissile Materials
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Description: Research brief discusses the problem and control of bomb making materials originating from civilian and military sources.
Controlling the Flow of Weapon-Usable Fissile Materials | RAND Controlling the Flow of Weapon-Usable Fissile Materials Controlling the Flow of Weapon-Usable Fissile Materials Chow and Solomon estimate that by the year 2003, 200 metric tons of weapon-grade plutonium and another 330 metric tons of reactor-grade plutonium will be recovered from spent fuel. This means that there will be enough weapon-grade plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons to make 40,000 primitive bombs and enough reactor-grade plutonium from spent fuel to make another 47,000 bombs (see figure). By 2003, 1,000 metric tons of highly enriched uranium will be recovered from dismantled weapons--enough to make 65,000 bombs.
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