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The Sum of Our Past.(Brief article)(Book review)
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March 1, 2007
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The Sum of Our Past
Judy Busk
Signature Books
564 West 400 North, Salt Lake City, UT 84116-3411
1560851848 $32.95 www.signaturebooks.com 1-800-356-5687
THE SUM OF OUR PAST: REVISITING PIONEER WOMEN is a 'must' for any college-level holding on women's studies, and many a public library strong in either this or pioneer history: it examines how ...
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Plutonium: rising terror threat.(FEATURES)(PLANET)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...televised debate. So why is the US moving plutonium from military to less secure civilian...programs that teach other nations how to use plutonium in nuclear power plants after a quarter...watch for unmarked white trucks carrying plutonium-based fuel to French nuclear power...
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Plutonium-an Element Never at Equilibrium
Magazine article from: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
; ...from the α-particle decay of plutonium damages its crystal lattice and transmutes plutonium into other elements over time (principally...causes significant volume expansion of pure plutonium and contraction of face-centered-cubic...
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Plutonium: the disposal decision.
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
; ...up to 50 metric tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium (essentially, plutonium 239) into forms that would make it less useful...and Russia work together to make surplus weapons plutonium less attractive for weapons use? Energy Secretary...
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PLUTONIUM AND THE U.S. MIXED OXIDE FUEL FACILITY:MATTHEW BUNN
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony
; ...Russia should do with the tens of tons of plutonium no longer needed for their nuclear weapons...Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, issued in two volumes in 1994 and 1995...principal staffer for the interagency plutonium disposition working group and for the...
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Plutonium protest: environmentalists believe shipping plutonium is a timebomb waiting to explode.(News Feature)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; The shipment of enough weaponsgrade plutonium across the Atlantic ocean to make about...The aim is to transport stockpiled plutonium to plants where it can be converted into...as Greenpeace want to see stockpiled plutonium put out of harm's way, but they are...
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Plutonium: A reactive nuclear metal
Magazine article from: JOM
; ...coincident with a recent topical conference on plutonium (Pu Futures-The Science 2003), we...this issue to the materials science of plutonium (a reactive nuclear metal!). Former...introduction and overview of the metallurgy of plutonium. The next article, by J.C. Martz...
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Plutonium Recovery Scheme Fuels Debate Over A-Weapons Plant
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Flats weapons plant will process more plutonium, not less. In the vision of Colorado...all its nuclear weapons tomorrow, the plutonium that sets off the chain reaction of nuclear...do that in the future, or to continue plutonium processing until then, is with something...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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PLUTONIUM MAY GO TO CIVILIAN NUCLEAR PLANTS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...will almost certainly recommend that plutonium from dismantled atomic bombs be used...establishment that has kept weapons-grade plutonium out of the civilian side to reduce the...States and Russia have large stocks of plutonium on hand. Administration officials say...
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Plutonium, the contest.(radiactive waste disposal)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
; ...decide how to get rid of the "excess" plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons, that...literal as well as figurative. This plutonium, once thought to be enormously valuable...disposal of excess material essential. Plutonium was long believed to be valuable because...
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DISARMAMENT: PLUTONIUM MOUNTAIN GROWS UNDER START TREATY PROCESS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...treaty is leaving both sides with more plutonium than they know what to do with. In line...going to plan, the volumes of unwanted plutonium awaiting reprocessing or safe storage...average of around three kilograms of plutonium and 15 kilograms of highly enriched uranium...
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