Sophisticated technologies that can be used in civilian life and for making nuclear
weapons present governments with a dilemma: how do they help manufacturers to keep their export sales high while ensuring that they do not supply would - be nuclear powers?
Many scientists and environmentalists warn that the
government's
present strategy of simply storing the plutonium could do more harm than good because it does nothing to reduce the risk of environmental disaster, and, rather than discourage other countries from developing nuclear
weapons, it could provoke them to increase their efforts.