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   BROWSE BY AUTHOR : ALLISON MACFARLANE, FRANK VON HIPPEL
Plutonium Disposal, theThird Way -- Allison Macfarlane, Frank von Hippel  -- Bulletin of Atomic Scientists  -- June 01, 2001

The authors summarize the current debate over how to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium and show the flaws in the two current strategies. They then introduce an alternative 'third way', fabricating the plutonium into rods of "storage MOX" that could be then buried geologically.

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