PRISM for the UK's plutonium – Pros and Cons

By guest blogger, Matthew Gill

The UK has a lot of plutonium and recently decided to look at GE-Hitachi's PRISM reactor as an alternative disposal method to the more common MOX (mixed oxide) route. It's an important issue at the moment as the UK's large stockpile of civil plutonium goes against the ideology of a proliferation-resistant fuel cycle and is widely regarded as unacceptable.

----------------------------------------------