The reality is that one of the major problems in decontaminating retired US plutonium production and manufacturing sites such as the "Queen Mary" separation plants in Hanford, Washington, and Rocky Flats, Colorado had to do with "missing Plutonium."
It is all good and fine to have a theoretical estimate of the absolute maximum amount of Plutonium a reactor could produce, but it bears only a theoretical relationship to the amount of Plutonium actually stockpiled.
The US has many tons of buried process piping and equipment, contaminated soil, and wastes produced by the various plants and processes used.
The IAEA had been the North Korean reactors and nuclear program from their beginning until the Bush administration caused the IAEA to be expelled.
The IAEA is back and is assessing the situation.
I will await the IAEA report before accepting ANY numbers.
The IAEA was right about Iraq, and the Bush junta lied. |
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