Sentences with phrase «reduce plutonium stockpiles»

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«It's a very important prerequisite for the control of nuclear materials,» says Brian Chow of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, who has analysed ways of reducing the world's plutonium stockpile.

PRISM has a number of benefits for managing plutonium — including reduced time to disposition the UK stockpile due to greater incorporation of plutonium in the fuel, and a simplified fuel manufacturing and reactor construction process — all of which reduce the costs of implementation.

The UK Government, through the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), is considering the use of PRISM to reduce its stockpile of 112 tons of plutonium stored in Cumbria.