The approaching plutonium surplus
A Japanese/European predicament
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3676273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frans Berkhout (0000-0001-8668-0470), Tatsujiro Suzuki, Willard Walker (0000-0002-3356-8036), William Walker |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-543 |
| Publication date | 1990-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2623072 |
| OpenAlex | W2321802411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The vision of cheap energy independence through civil nuclear power has faded in the late 1980s as the costs of nuclear programmes have come to light. But present nuclear plans in Japan, France and Britain are set to produce quantities of plutonium in the 1990s which, the authors argue, will be surplus to requirements and very difficult to use. The over-production of plutonium will pose political and security problems—particularly for Japan, which owns large stocks of separated plutonium in Europe that it may not be able to bring back home. Nuclear strategy in Japan and Europe needs to be rethought if serious international problems are to be avoided
Atomic energy · Independence (probability theory) · Nuclear physics · Nuclear power · Nuclear weapon · Plutonium · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Chemistry · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Nuclear and radioactivity studies · Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2023 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |