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Nature 407, 833-834 (19 October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35038256

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Did civil reactors supply plutonium for weapons?

K. W. J. Barnham1, J. Nelson1 & R. A. Stevens2

  1. Physics Department, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BW , UK
  2. Join Systems, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

We welcome the recent publication by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) of the first official inventory of the country's military plutonium1, 2. The report contains a remarkable admission 2: "These figures show that the weapon cycle stockpile is in fact some 0.