The global stockpile of separated plutonium is expensive and hazardous to reprocess, vulnerable to terrorist threat and disposal is costly. But there are apparently simple ways to reduce this problem.
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von Hippel, F. How to simplify the plutonium problem. Nature 394, 415–416 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/28725
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