Alan Roberts

ecologist, scientist, revolutionary democrat, socialist

  • The Self-Managing Environment
  • Life and Memories
  • Climate Change and how to Meet it
  • Nuclear Power is a phantom solution to climate change
  • Nuclear Power and the Bomb
  • Science and Ecology

Generating electrical power… and atomic bombs

The double role of nuclear power stations

A common reactor type produces enough plutonium each year for dozens of atomic bombs. A belief once widely held, that the plutonium made in a reactor is always so ‘contaminated’ that it is useless as bomb material, is not true.

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