The Plutonium Disposal Decision: Work with Russia

Deals with `dual track' strategy for transforming up to 50 metric tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium into forms that would make it less useful for nuclear weapons. Comments of Energy secretary Hazel O'Leary about the techniques for `immobilizing' plutonium; Three principal assumptions that drive the energy's dual track disposition strategy; Recommendations of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences on the dual-track approach.

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