A big pile of PU

  Posted on February 6, 2022 by beyondnuclearinternational

120 tons of plutonium is legacy of Britain’s dirty decades of reprocessing

By Paul Brown, The Energy Mix

Seventy years after the United Kingdom first began extracting plutonium from spent uranium fuel to make nuclear weapons, the industry is finally calling a halt to reprocessing, leaving the country with 120 tons of the metal, the biggest stockpile in the world. However, the government has no idea what to do with it.