I have often blogged about the one hundred and fifty acre Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south central Washington State. After decades of nuclear weapons development which ended around 1990 with the end of the Cold War, the Hanford site is one of the most radioactively polluted areas on Earth. The U.S.
Plutonium is produced in conventional nuclear reactors. The plutonium can be treated as waste and disposed of. It can be extracted from the spent nuclear fuel and be used to create new mixed uranium/plutonium fuel. It can also be extracted, refined and used to produce nuclear weapons. Combined civilian and military stockpiles worldwide probably exceed five hundred tons.
I recently wrote in detail about the devastating effects of the detonation of a nuclear device in a major city. I have also written about the nuclear threat from North Korea. The big question is whether N.K.
The United Kingdom (U.K.) has just entered a two-year period of negotiations with the European Union (E.U.) over the exact terms of its exit from the E.U.
When the U.K. Parliament passed the bill at the end of January authorizing the exit from the E.U., they included a note to the effect that the U.K. would also be leaving Euroatom at the same time.
Western Europe is having a lot of problems with nuclear power. Germany is working out how to shut down all of their nuclear power plants. Austria is suing other European Union nations over nuclear issues. The Brexit threw shockwaves into the European nuclear industry.
