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Issues related to safe plutonium management and to the prospects for using the plutonium extracted from weapons as reactor fuel are becoming more and more important for the industrial development, environmental protection and national security policies of Russia. In recent years, because of the continuing decrease in the threat of nuclear confrontation, significant amounts of nuclear materials that have been extracted and accumulated at nuclear weapons related facilities as a result of dismantling warheads. These materials consist of both highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium.
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Dmitriev, A.M. (1999). Current State of And Near Term Prospects for Plutonium Management in Russia. In: Parish, T.A., Khromov, V.V., Carron, I. (eds) Safety Issues Associated with Plutonium Involvement in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. NATO Science Series, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4591-6_2
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