plutonium based nuclear power plants todays new york times just wrote about a pact being negotiated between us and the russians to develope high temperature gas cooled fission reactors using re cycled weapons grade plutonium from warhead stockpiles the fuel will be pelletized in ceramic for safety and then after depletion will be sufficiently contaminated with by products to make extraction of the remaining plutonium hazardous enough to deter re use apparently the project will be led by general atomics of san diego with funding from the us government the pilot plant will be built and operated by the russians pat
